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Cromlech · Darkthrone

EXERCISE 21 OF 73
Groove S
68 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS 5
PART AU
PART C
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
9 groovesICZAUB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cromlech on drums

178 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24 and ride through bars 25-28, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 29-31 and 45-47, and 4 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Cromlech -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22 and 59 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-37 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 48-155 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cromlech?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Cromlech hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 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 Cromlech?

20 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED