Crime and punishment · Ado

184 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:54 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39, 49-52 and 54-55, and 16 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT · BAR 63
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 23, 24, 32, 38, 40, 44 and 46 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 10 sections: 78 keep time, 52 are fills, 12 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-63.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S7
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesHS9CS1S7+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crime and punishment?

120 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 Crime and punishment hard to play on drums?

61 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Crime and punishment?

18 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 23, 24, 32, 38, 40, 44 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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