The Crossing · Big Country

412 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 168 BPM, 7:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
412
LENGTH
7:21
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 18-24 and 26-28, and 40 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 168 BPM
THE CROSSING · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 25, 41, 49, 57, 69, 135 and 16 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

412 bars across 31 sections: 224 keep time, 22 are fills, 46 are stops and 99 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 389-411.

BREAK
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
18 groovesDS7CKB+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Crossing?

168 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 The Crossing hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

412 bars, about 7:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Crossing?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 25, 41, 49, 57, 69, 135 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 412 BARS ANALYSED
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