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Cassandra · Theatre Of Tragedy

Cassandra · Theatre Of Tragedy
EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cassandra on drums

123 bars, 6:34, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
6:34
DIFFICULTY
49/100

ride through bars 1-66, hi-hat through bars 67-82, ride through bars 83-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-123.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-25 and 39-53 -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 54, 82 and 122.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-42 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 63-98 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cassandra?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Cassandra hard to play on drums?

49 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 6:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 54, 82 and 122.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED