Cruise · Florida Georgia Line

63 bars, 3:24, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Country / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 13-15 and 17-19, and 10 more places -- 47.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 74 BPM
CRUISE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 26, 34, 38, 47, 51 and 2 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 7 sections: 45 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-19.

PART C
CHORUS
BREAK 3
OUTRO
6 groovesBCS5AS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cruise?

74 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 Cruise hard to play on drums?

49 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Cruise?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 26, 34, 38, 47, 51 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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