The Crow & The Butterfly · Shinedown

98 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 3:55 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
25/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-31 and 49-58 -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE CROW & THE BUTTERFLY · BARS 23-24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 60, 61, 63, 64 and 65.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 60-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 63-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 7 sections: 52 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesS7EBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Crow & The Butterfly?

150 BPM, in 6/4, 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 The Crow & The Butterfly hard to play on drums?

25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Crow & The Butterfly?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 60, 61, 63, 64 and 65.

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