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Casual (Band Arrangement) · Chappell Roan

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Casual (Band Arrangement) on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
44/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-73, snare through bars 74-90, hi-hat through bars 91-107 and snare through bars 108-123.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x-----x-----x-|
BD |x---x-----------|
Casual (Band Arrangement) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- F, B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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