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Cassandra (EADG) · Pommelien Thijs

Cassandra (EADG) · Pommelien Thijs
EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove J -- Part J (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART J, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
BREAK 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEJAGS10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cassandra (EADG) on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-10, silence through bars 11-13, toms through bars 14-15, snare through bars 16-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-26, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34, 43-50 and 71-75 -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43                       44
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
SD |x---x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-|x---x-x-x-x-x---x---x---|
BD |x-----------------------|x---------------x---x---|
Cassandra (EADG) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 26, 31, 32, 42 and 67.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-68 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cassandra (EADG)?

125 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 Cassandra (EADG) hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Cassandra (EADG)?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 26, 31, 32, 42 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED