Without Crutches · Float Face Down

109 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 4 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
WITHOUT CRUTCHES · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 21, 23, 25, 29, 104 and 3 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 12 sections: 67 keep time, 9 are fills, 16 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-74.

PART C
PART D
PART H
PART M
PART P
PART R
PART W
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAADPCH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Without Crutches?

122 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 Without Crutches hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Without Crutches?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 21, 23, 25, 29, 104 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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