← SONGS

Living the Crash · I Am Giant

Living the Crash · I Am Giant
EXERCISE 29 OF 59
Groove M -- Part M
118 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Living the Crash on drums

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

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
38/100

toms through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-42, toms through bars 43-58, snare through bars 59-70, kick and crashes through bars 71-86 and toms through bars 87-94, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Living the Crash -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- C, A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 83-99 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Outro -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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