Crown Of Love · The Arcade Fire

161 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 4:49 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-34, 58-66 and 68-70, and 10 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
CROWN OF LOVE · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 51, 93, 101, 105, 109 and 8 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 116-117 · LANDS ON BAR 118 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 7 sections: 140 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-50.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEDKBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crown Of Love?

100 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Crown Of Love 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Crown Of Love?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 51, 93, 101, 105, 109 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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