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Cruise · Florida Georgia Line

Cruise · Florida Georgia Line
EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS, OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK 3
OUTRO
6 groovesBCS5AS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cruise on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-42, silence through bars 43-46, snare through bars 47-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-63.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Cruise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break 3 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Break 4 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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