← SONGS

Crossroads (Live) · Cream

EXERCISE 30 OF 30
Play the whole song with the record
133 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 134 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAIJCGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crossroads (Live) on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
40/100

toms through bars 1-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-36, toms through bars 37-52, snare through bars 53-58, toms through bars 59-60 and snare through bars 61-72, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x---x---x---|
FT |x---------------|
BD |--x---x-------x-|
HF |------x-------x-|
Crossroads (Live) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- A, I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-53 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-84 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 83-99 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
START THE COURSE ↑

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