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Song Of The Crippled Bull · Black Crown Initiate

Song Of The Crippled Bull · Black Crown Initiate
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EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove M -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 63 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Song Of The Crippled Bull on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-26, hi-hat through bars 27-29, silence through bars 30-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52 and snare through bars 53-61, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    77                                               78
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |------x-x-x-x--x--x--x--x--x--x--------x-x-x-x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--------x-x-x-x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Song Of The Crippled Bull -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- M -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-44 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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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