Cruising · Vixen

197 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-18 and 20, and 20 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 186 BPM
CRUISING · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 39, 40 and 21 more.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 26 sections: 137 keep time, 27 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-55.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
7 groovesCFHOM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cruising?

186 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 Cruising hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Cruising?

5 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 39, 40 and 21 more.

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