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Caved In · Spite

EXERCISE 8 OF 74
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHSNACA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Caved In on drums

146 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-19, ride through bars 20-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-39, hi-hat through bars 40-46 and snare through bars 47-56, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 28-30, and 5 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 13, 14, 23 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- H, S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-58 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part X -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-111 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Caved In?

185 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 Caved In hard to play on drums?

58 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 13, 14, 23 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED