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Calvary Drive · Yellowcard

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove F -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART S10
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFCJS10S1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Calvary Drive on drums

124 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-41, hi-hat through bars 42-61, toms through bars 62-63 and snare through bars 64-94, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-36 and 38, and 7 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|
Calvary Drive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 33, 39, 77, 85, 89, 92 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- F, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-87 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 85-105 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Calvary Drive?

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

Is Calvary Drive hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Calvary Drive?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 33, 39, 77, 85, 89, 92 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED