When Crows Tick On Windows · Carach Angren

202 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:59 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 81-91 and 101-108 -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
WHEN CROWS TICK ON WINDOWS · BARS 81-82
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 11, 13, 22, 28, 34, 35 and 26 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 34-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 11 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 22 sections: 101 keep time, 32 are fills, 10 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-108.

PART G
PART B
PART AE
CHORUS
PART AX
PART AR
BREAK
19 groovesALS22AEAXB+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When Crows Tick On Windows?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 When Crows Tick On Windows hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 97 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 27 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 When Crows Tick On Windows?

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 11, 13, 22, 28, 34, 35 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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