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Instant Crush (feat. Julian Casablancas) · Daft Punk

EXERCISE 12 OF 16
Groove F -- Part F
148 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
PART F
VERSE 3
4 groovesABFS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Instant Crush (feat. Julian Casablancas) on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-124, silence through bars 125-127 and hi-hat through bars 128-156.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-40, 57-59 and 61-79, and 2 more places -- 55.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Instant Crush (feat. Julian Casablancas) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 119-125 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Instant Crush (feat. Julian Casablancas)?

110 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 Instant Crush (feat. Julian Casablancas) hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED