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I've Always Been Crazy · Waylon Jennings

I've Always Been Crazy · Waylon Jennings
EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 24 PASSED · 49 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART F
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I've Always Been Crazy on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-117.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-34, 36 and 38-52 -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |x---------------|
I've Always Been Crazy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 117.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 51-68 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I've Always Been Crazy?

108 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 I've Always Been Crazy hard to play on drums?

51 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in I've Always Been Crazy?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED