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Cave In · Orthodox

EXERCISE 12 OF 62
Join Chorus to Part A (bars 24-26)
51 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART A
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBAQKUS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cave In on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-29, toms through bars 30-32, hi-hat through bars 33-38, toms through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-56, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-22 and 61-67, and 7 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                                                10
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------x-----------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------------------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----x-----|x-----------------x-x-x-------x-----------------|
Cave In -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 30, 31, 32 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-33 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-59 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cave In?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Cave In hard to play on drums?

64 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cave In?

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 30, 31, 32 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED