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Crazy Train (Live With Randy Rhoads) · Ozzy Osbourne

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove J -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesJSMEB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crazy Train (Live With Randy Rhoads) on drums

184 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-25, hi-hat through bars 26-45, ride through bars 46-59, hi-hat through bars 60-79 and ride through bars 80-93, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-44, 60-62 and 64-78, and 1 more place -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Crazy Train (Live With Randy Rhoads) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 45, 49, 53 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crazy Train (Live With Randy Rhoads)?

142 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Train (Live With Randy Rhoads) hard to play on drums?

51 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Train (Live With Randy Rhoads)?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 45, 49, 53 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED