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Crystal Knight · Netherwalker, Grayson Yearty, Mauricio Cortez Bowles, Alex Calver

Crystal Knight · Netherwalker, Grayson Yearty, Mauricio Cortez Bowles, Alex Calver
EXERCISE 17 OF 90
Groove F -- Part F
36 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 90 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
PART S2
CHORUS
PART F
PART X
PART F
PART D
PART BC
PART BI
PART S15
PART BU
PART BV
21 groovesHBCBUDAI+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 2
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crystal Knight on drums

173 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-11, toms through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-26 and ride through bars 27-30, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 94-101, 103-104 and 108 -- 7.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    94
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x----------x----x----x-----x---------x-----x----x----x-----x----|
Crystal Knight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- BC -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- BU -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crystal Knight?

133 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Crystal Knight hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Crystal Knight?

19 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED