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Crossfire · Envine

EXERCISE 1 OF 78
Groove AZ -- Part AZ
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PART J
PART T
PART T
PART AR
PART AZ
PART BD
OUTRO 2
15 groovesS17TBDAZAR+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crossfire on drums

194 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, toms through bars 4-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, ride through bars 25-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-37, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 96-111 -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    97
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x---------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Crossfire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 14, 75 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- AZ -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BD -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part S1 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 6-22 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crossfire?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Crossfire hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Crossfire?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 14, 75 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED