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Crooked Teeth · Death Cab For Cutie

EXERCISE 3 OF 28
Groove C
35 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crooked Teeth on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 3-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-52, ride through bars 53-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-66, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 15 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Crooked Teeth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 52, 60, 62, 67, 68 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Crooked Teeth?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Crooked Teeth hard to play on drums?

56 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Crooked Teeth?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 52, 60, 62, 67, 68 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED