← SONGS

The Crow & The Butterfly · Shinedown

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesS7EBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Crow & The Butterfly on drums

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.

25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
25/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-22, ride through bars 23-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-48 and ride through bars 49-62, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23                       24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|----------------x---x---|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------|------x-----x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|x---------x-----x---x---|
The Crow & The Butterfly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- E, B, A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-26 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-62 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED