Caves · Elitist

145 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 72, 76 and 80, and 4 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
CAVES · BAR 86
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 26 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 14 sections: 79 keep time, 32 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-80.

PART E
PART K
PART Q
PART W
PART W
PART AA
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAQBHWAAS14+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Caves?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second 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?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Caves?

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →