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Casualty · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 31 OF 33
Run Y1 · Outro (bars 84-87)
61 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART N
OUTRO
9 groovesKCS8NS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Casualty on drums

91 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-26, snare through bars 27-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-46, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-33, 51-54 and 80-82, and 1 more place -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---xx--x---|
Casualty -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 12, 16, 34, 55, 73 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase), N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-77 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-57 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-83 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 76-86 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Casualty?

160 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 Casualty hard to play on drums?

56 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Casualty?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 12, 16, 34, 55, 73 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED