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Stop The Fucking Car (Circa Survive) · Sirca Curvive

EXERCISE 18 OF 72
Groove G
125 / 204 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART M
PART M
CHORUS
PART AJ
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesZAJMBX+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stop The Fucking Car (Circa Survive) on drums

204 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 158 BPM, 4:22 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, toms through bars 29-46, hi-hat through bars 47-60, toms through bars 61-74, snare through bars 75-114 and toms through bars 115-116, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 85-87, 89-90 and 93-95, and 17 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    85           86
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|x---x---x---|
SD |------x-----|--gg------x-|
BD |x---x-----x-|x---x-x-x---|
Stop The Fucking Car (Circa Survive) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12 and 62 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stop The Fucking Car (Circa Survive)?

158 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Stop The Fucking Car (Circa Survive) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 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 Stop The Fucking Car (Circa Survive)?

17 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12 and 62 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED