Is Fuair an Chroí · Cruachan

83 bars, 4:47, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-15, 24-46 and 68-74, and 1 more place -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 69 BPM
IS FUAIR AN CHROÍ · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 47, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 and 11 more.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 69 BPM
BARS 51-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 8 sections: 53 keep time, 17 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-46.

PART D
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
5 groovesGJDTS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Is Fuair an Chroí?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Is Fuair an Chroí hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Is Fuair an Chroí?

2 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 47, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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