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The Crossing · Big Country

EXERCISE 12 OF 66
Groove H -- Outro
167 / 412 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK
PART K
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesDS7CKB+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Crossing on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
412
LENGTH
7:21
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-28, hi-hat through bars 29-41, ride through bars 42-50, silence through bars 51-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-57, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- D, C -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 48-200 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-142 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part S8 and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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