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Small Crimes · Failure

EXERCISE 12 OF 42
Join Part B to Part E (bars 76-78)
107 / 213 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART E
PART C
PART B
PART S5
PART B
PART E
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
12 groovesLBFRJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Small Crimes on drums

213 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
7:06
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-32, toms through bars 33-49, silence through bars 50-61 and toms through bars 62-76, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82, 84-86 and 88, and 17 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    82
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-|
Small Crimes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 145 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-124 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 76-89 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 82-123 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 131-180 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Small Crimes?

120 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 Small Crimes hard to play on drums?

37 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 7:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Small Crimes?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 145 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED