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Cast No Shadow · Oasis

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove C -- Outro
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCTS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cast No Shadow on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 17-22, and 8 more places -- 60.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x------x-xx-----|
Cast No Shadow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 16, 23, 24, 25, 37 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cast No Shadow?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Cast No Shadow hard to play on drums?

48 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Cast No Shadow?

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 16, 23, 24, 25, 37 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED