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Crucifix X · Ave Mujica

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove T -- Chorus
0 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART E
PART P
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART AI
PART AO
BREAK 5
CHORUS 3
12 groovesTCEAIAO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crucifix X on drums

123 bars, 9:47, at 50 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
50 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
9:47
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-35, ride through bars 36-37, hi-hat through bars 38-48, ride through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-62, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34 and 38-40, and 12 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x-------x-|
Crucifix X -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 52 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- T -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-37 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-70 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crucifix X?

50 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Crucifix X hard to play on drums?

53 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 9:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Crucifix X?

12 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED