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Mr. Crowley · Ozzy Osbourne

EXERCISE 7 OF 71
Groove B -- Part B
51 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART AC
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDANACOAK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mr. Crowley on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-51, toms through bars 52-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-126.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 14-16 and 18-19, and 8 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    8
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------x-----------x-----|
Mr. Crowley -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 11, 21, 23, 27, 37 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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, AN -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-53 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-56 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mr. Crowley?

90 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 Mr. Crowley hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Mr. Crowley?

19 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 11, 21, 23, 27, 37 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED