Casual (Band Arrangement) · Chappell Roan

123 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-45, 58-72 and 82-88, and 3 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 131 BPM
CASUAL (BAND ARRANGEMENT) · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 27, 29, 55, 57, 73 and 6 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 6 sections: 72 keep time, 12 are fills and 37 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-80.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Casual (Band Arrangement)?

131 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 Casual (Band Arrangement) hard to play on drums?

44 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Casual (Band Arrangement)?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 27, 29, 55, 57, 73 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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