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Criminal · Fiona Apple

EXERCISE 3 OF 37
Groove B
53 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCRFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Criminal on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-63, ride through bars 64-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 8 and 13-15, and 15 more places -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Criminal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 17, 34, 42, 50, 59 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-30 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-77 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Criminal?

90 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 Criminal hard to play on drums?

48 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Criminal?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 17, 34, 42, 50, 59 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED