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Crisis · Fear Factory

EXERCISE 25 OF 46
4-bar fill at bar 70
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0 / 46 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART C
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLES11CR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crisis on drums

158 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-35, toms through bars 36-37, snare through bars 38-53, hi-hat through bars 54-69 and toms through bars 70-73, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-50 and 52, and 17 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 20, 36, 37, 51, 57, 70 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-29 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-129 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-61 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crisis?

157 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 Crisis 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Crisis?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 20, 36, 37, 51, 57, 70 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED