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Southern Cross · Crosby, Stills & Nash

EXERCISE 23 OF 38
Fill at bar 35 and 96 (a small one)
86 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAHBFD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Southern Cross on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
41/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 29 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 21, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-27 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-59 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-63 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 62-96 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Southern Cross?

82 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 Southern Cross hard to play on drums?

41 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Southern Cross?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 21, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED