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Cardinal · Kacey Musgraves

Cardinal · Kacey Musgraves
EXERCISE 5 OF 18
Join Chorus to Part S4 (bars 26-28)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART S4
COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART S4
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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cardinal on drums

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

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-28, silence through bars 29-32, ride through bars 33-37, hi-hat through bars 38-43 and snare through bars 44-47, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Cardinal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 26-38 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 38-102 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 44-62 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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