Living the Crash · I Am Giant

143 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 59-61, and 12 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 146 BPM
LIVING THE CRASH · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 41, 42, 49 and 20 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 40-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 10 sections: 80 keep time, 26 are fills and 27 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-31.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesCALGM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Living the Crash?

146 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 Living the Crash hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Living the Crash?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 41, 42, 49 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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