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The Crimson · Atreyu

EXERCISE 12 OF 85
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
77 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART O
PART U
PART AA
PART AH
PART AJ
PART J
12 groovesCJAJUO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Crimson on drums

158 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-54, snare through bars 55-56, hi-hat through bars 57-80 and snare through bars 81-94, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-44, 46-47 and 51-54, and 6 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 55, 56, 64 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- J, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-101 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 29-88 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-146 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-60 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Crimson?

163 BPM, in 4/4, 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 The Crimson hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 The Crimson?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 55, 56, 64 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED