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Crowquill · Crowquill

EXERCISE 24 OF 43
Join Chorus to Part N (bars 27-29)
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0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART N
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crowquill on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
1:28
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-11, snare through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-28, snare through bars 29-36 and ride through bars 37-43, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|----------------|
HH |----------------|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-x---|--x-x-----x-----|
Crowquill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-33 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part S3 and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-37 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part N and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Break 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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