Crimson · Valentine

101 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 41 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
CRIMSON · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 5 sections: 65 keep time, 1 is a fill, 32 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-101.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesDFS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crimson?

170 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 hard to play on drums?

47 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Crimson?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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