Cream Of The Crop! · Dance Gavin Dance

130 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 5 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
CREAM OF THE CROP! · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 33 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 15 sections: 56 keep time, 39 are fills, 9 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-23.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART R
PART X
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
PART S11
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesDXRADN+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cream Of The Crop!?

148 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 Cream Of The Crop! hard to play on drums?

49 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Cream Of The Crop!?

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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