crystal mountain but chuck · school

54 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 1:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
1:13
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 5 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 177 BPM
CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN BUT CHUCK · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 38, 39, 40 and 2 more.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 177 BPM
BARS 38-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 6 sections: 38 keep time, 8 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBNDOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is crystal mountain but chuck?

177 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 crystal mountain but chuck hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 1:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 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 mountain but chuck?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 38, 39, 40 and 2 more.

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