ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cafo on drums

302 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 6:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 156 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 302
LENGTH: 6:50
DIFFICULTY: 77/100

snare through bars 3-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36, snare through bars 37-54, ride through bars 55-56, hi-hat through bars 57-80 and ride through bars 81-96, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 28-29 and 31-32, and 34 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25                                         26
    1...........2...........3...........4..... 1...........2...........3...........4.....
CC |x-----------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----|------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------|---------------------------------------x--|
BD |x--x--x-----x-----x--x--x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x--x--x-----x-----x-----|

Cafo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 6, 9, 22, 23, 24, 64 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- H, E -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 8-28 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through Part U and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Cafo?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cafo hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

302 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Cafo?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 6, 9, 22, 23, 24, 64 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 302 BARS ANALYSED