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Crusades · Geese

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove A -- Part A
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PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesKACS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crusades on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 2:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-25, silence through bars 26-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-17, 21 and 64 -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 22, 23, 24, 52, 53 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-54 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Crusades?

111 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 Crusades hard to play on drums?

58 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Crusades?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 22, 23, 24, 52, 53 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED