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Crimson · Valentine
EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesDFS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crimson on drums

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

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-36, snare through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-85 and snare through bars 86-101.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---x-xx|
BD |--x-x-----x-----|
Crimson -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

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