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Crystals · Electric Callboy

EXERCISE 17 OF 45
Groove L (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 45 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesOIGVS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crystals on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and snare through bars 49-60, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 53-55, and 3 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 36 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crystals?

100 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 Crystals hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 17 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Crystals?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 36 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED