Crazy · Aerosmith

140 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 81 BPM, 5:12 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-6 and 8, and 38 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 81 BPM
CRAZY · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 21, 25, 33 and 12 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 7 sections: 112 keep time, 18 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-96.

CHORUS
PART O
PART Q
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBOCQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crazy?

81 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Crazy hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Crazy?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 21, 25, 33 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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