Crossroads (Live) · Cream

134 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23, 37-46 and 48-52, and 2 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
CROSSROADS (LIVE) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 130, 131, 132, 133 and 134.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 130-134 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 9 sections: 117 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-120.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAIJCGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crossroads (Live)?

132 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 Crossroads (Live) hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Crossroads (Live)?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 130, 131, 132, 133 and 134.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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