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Without Crutches · Float Face Down
EXERCISE 14 OF 50
Fill at bar 23 and 25 (a small one)
51 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Without Crutches on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-25, snare through bars 26-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-32, snare through bars 33-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-55, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
BD |x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Without Crutches -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA, P -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 22-42 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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