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Crusaders Of Avalon · Alpha Current

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 9 PASSED · 45 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crusaders Of Avalon on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 1-41, silence through bars 42-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-68.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-41 and 52-67 -- 71.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Crusaders Of Avalon?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Crusaders Of Avalon hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED