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Crescent-Shaped Depression · Title Fight

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 49 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crescent-Shaped Depression on drums

99 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, snare through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-29, snare through bars 30-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-35, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-24, 26-33 and 36-50, and 2 more places -- 54.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|----o---o---o---|
SD |----X-------X---|----X-------X---|
BD |x---------x---x-|--x-------x-----|
Crescent-Shaped Depression -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 25, 55, 73, 74, 75 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- E, B -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. Bars 14-73 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-72 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 68-88 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Crescent-Shaped Depression?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Crescent-Shaped Depression hard to play on drums?

55 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Crescent-Shaped Depression?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 25, 55, 73, 74, 75 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED