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From The Cradle To The Grave · Havok

EXERCISE 8 OF 87
Groove AV -- Part AV
51 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 87 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AV, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART O
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART AE
PART AI
PART AN
PART AV
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHAIDOAV+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play From The Cradle To The Grave on drums

207 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
67/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, toms through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-64, toms through bars 65-66 and ride through bars 67-68, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-34 and 37-38, and 6 more places -- 12.1% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
From The Cradle To The Grave -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 20, 24, 32 and 61 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AV -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-179 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 19-39 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is From The Cradle To The Grave?

150 BPM, in 4/4, 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 From The Cradle To The Grave hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in From The Cradle To The Grave?

20 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 20, 24, 32 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED