Cast from heaven · Carnal

253 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
253
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-61, 63-65 and 67-69, and 41 more places -- 33.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
CAST FROM HEAVEN · BAR 75
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 10, 62, 70 and 38 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

253 bars across 13 sections: 124 keep time, 45 are fills, 74 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-26.

PART G
PART H
PART I
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJGHIS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cast from heaven?

200 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 Cast from heaven hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

253 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Cast from heaven?

10 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 10, 62, 70 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 253 BARS ANALYSED
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