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Crimson (Part I) · Edge Of Sanity

Crimson (Part I) · Edge Of Sanity
EXERCISE 28 OF 45
Run R1 · Part R (bars 43-52)
74 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART R
PART W
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
11 groovesBWS11IR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crimson (Part I) on drums

129 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bars 2-26, silence through bars 27-30, ride through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, ride through bars 43-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-60, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 79-81, and 2 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|--x-x-----------|
HF |----------------|------------g---|
Crimson (Part I) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 9, 17, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-38 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 53-87 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crimson (Part I)?

165 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 Crimson (Part I) hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 Crimson (Part I)?

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 9, 17, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED