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Crown Of Love · The Arcade Fire

EXERCISE 5 OF 29
Groove K -- Outro 2
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0 / 29 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEDKBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crown Of Love on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 2-32, hi-hat through bars 33-35, toms through bars 36-57, hi-hat through bars 58-77, toms through bars 78-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-161.

The beat

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.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
FT |x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------|
Crown Of Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Bars 71-85 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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