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Kerosene · Crystal Castles

Kerosene · Crystal Castles
EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove A
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0 / 10 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, VERSE, OUTRO
CHORUS
VERSE
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesCBS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kerosene on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-73, silence through bars 74-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 6-7 and 10-11, and 15 more places -- 41.6% 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 |-xx-----xx------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x--x--|
Kerosene -- 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 9 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 -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Kerosene?

125 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 Kerosene hard to play on drums?

64 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED