Crowquill · Crowquill

61 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 1:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
1:28
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-19, 21 and 23-25, and 1 more place -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
CROWQUILL · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 20, 22, 26 and 11 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 9-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 8 sections: 23 keep time, 17 are fills, 11 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-6.

PART A
PART S3
CHORUS
PART N
PART R
OUTRO
8 groovesHS7RNA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crowquill?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Crowquill hard to play on drums?

59 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 1:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Crowquill?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 20, 22, 26 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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