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Casanova · Thornhill

EXERCISE 17 OF 56
Join Part F to Chorus 2 (bars 23-25)
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0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Casanova on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-56, hi-hat through bars 57-64 and toms through bars 65-70, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- C, L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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