Cardinal · Kacey Musgraves

108 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-27, 33-37 and 48-51, and 2 more places -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
CARDINAL · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 13 sections: 42 keep time, 4 are stops and 48 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-27.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBS11S2FE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cardinal?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Cardinal hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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