Crazy In Love ft. JAY Z · Beyoncé

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO

100 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

96

LENGTH

3:50

DIFFICULTY

47/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-76, snare through bars 77-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-96.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-20 and 29-40, and 3 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x----x-------x--|-----x-------xx-|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C, F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Bars 5-26 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
4. Bars 22-53 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Bars 67-96 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.