Caves · Chiodos

136 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 9-10, and 7 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
CAVES · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 20, 39, 40, 44, 54, 57 and 31 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 15 sections: 68 keep time, 37 are fills, 2 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART O
PART X
PART O
PART AH
BREAK
9 groovesAOXFS15+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Caves?

163 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 Caves hard to play on drums?

54 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Caves?

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 20, 39, 40, 44, 54, 57 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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