Casanova · Thornhill

115 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 8 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CASANOVA · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 28, 32 and 14 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 12 sections: 69 keep time, 20 are fills, 9 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-47.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART V
PART AB
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCABAHSV+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Casanova?

120 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 Casanova hard to play on drums?

58 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Casanova?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 28, 32 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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