Cassie · Flyleaf

115 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-22, 27-30 and 49-52, and 4 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
CASSIE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 36, 66 and 115.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 115
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 10 sections: 97 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-114.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART I
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEAICKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cassie?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cassie hard to play on drums?

43 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Cassie?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 36, 66 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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