Crossfire · Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

121 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 14-24 and 26-28, and 12 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
CROSSFIRE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 25, 29, 33 and 16 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 6 sections: 70 keep time, 22 are fills and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-72.

PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crossfire?

116 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 Crossfire 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Crossfire?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 25, 29, 33 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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