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Cast from heaven · Carnal

EXERCISE 15 OF 54
Join Part H to Part I (bars 41-43)
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cast from heaven on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
253
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, ride through bars 27-42, hi-hat through bars 43-90 and kick and crashes through bars 91-98, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-30 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-62 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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