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Crazy · Aerosmith

EXERCISE 31 OF 43
Run C1 · Part C (bars 108-117)
135 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crazy on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-97, hi-hat through bars 98-104 and ride through bars 105-140.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-xxx-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
Crazy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part O and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part Q and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 108-130 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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