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Cathedral · Wunderhorse

EXERCISE 5 OF 22
Join Chorus to Break (bars 12-14)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCS3S1S10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cathedral on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, silence through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-61, toms through bars 62-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-78.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 30 and 34, and 4 more places -- 50.8% 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-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Cathedral -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 35, 62, 63 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 12-36 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 35-76 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cathedral?

90 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 Cathedral hard to play on drums?

38 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 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 Cathedral?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 35, 62, 63 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED