ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cantina Band on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 132 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 92
LENGTH: 2:44
DIFFICULTY: 74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-13, hi-hat through bars 14-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-38, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9, 11 and 13-14, and 9 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13                                                               14
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------------------------------------------------------|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---x---|

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 28, 32 and 13 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
Bars 7-36 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Cantina Band?

132 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 Cantina Band hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Cantina Band?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 28, 32 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED