Cloud Cascade · Invent Animate

108 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveElectronic90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 18-19, and 5 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
CLOUD CASCADE · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 28, 32, 36, 40, 52 and 7 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 15 sections: 52 keep time, 13 are fills, 13 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-27.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART S5
PART Q
PART AE
PART AH
OUTRO
10 groovesCMHAEAH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cloud Cascade?

116 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 Cloud Cascade hard to play on drums?

61 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Cloud Cascade?

12 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 28, 32, 36, 40, 52 and 7 more.

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