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Desert Cruiser · Truckfighters

Desert Cruiser · Truckfighters
EXERCISE 35 OF 78
Fill at bar 80 (a small one)
182 / 233 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART N
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
13 groovesCAFNFS+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Desert Cruiser on drums

233 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
7:46
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-40 and kick and crashes through bars 41-42, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 43-49, and 9 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x--g--x--g--x--g--x--g--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x-----x--x--x-----x--|
Desert Cruiser -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 50, 58 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- C, AF -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 34-79 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-41 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-78 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Desert Cruiser?

120 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 Desert Cruiser 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 7:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Desert Cruiser?

19 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 50, 58 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED