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Cruising · Vixen

Cruising · Vixen
EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
CHORUS 8
CHORUS 9
OUTRO
7 groovesCFHOM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cruising on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-190, snare through bars 191-193 and toms through bars 194-197.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---|
Cruising -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-25 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-60 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-108 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 135-189 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED