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Kryptonite · 3 Doors Down

EXERCISE 18 OF 28
Groove K -- Outro
75 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kryptonite on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-64, snare through bars 65-76 and ride through bars 77-93.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-27 and 29, and 21 more places -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------------x--------x--------------x--------|
Kryptonite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 36, 40, 48 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-77 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Kryptonite?

99 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Kryptonite hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Kryptonite?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 36, 40, 48 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED