Crust · Flying Lotus

79 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 107 BPM, 2:13 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-18, and 3 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 107 BPM
CRUST · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 79.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 79
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 7 sections: 69 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-71.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crust?

107 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Crust hard to play on drums?

60 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Crust?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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