Song Of The Crippled Bull · Black Crown Initiate

140 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 77-91 and 93-140 -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SONG OF THE CRIPPLED BULL · BARS 77-78
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 56, 59 and 2 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 6 sections: 93 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-140.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART S3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMHCS5S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song Of The Crippled Bull?

120 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 Song Of The Crippled Bull hard to play on drums?

68 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?

140 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Song Of The Crippled Bull?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 56, 59 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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