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EXERCISE 8 OF 55
Groove B
34 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART S5
PART Q
PART AE
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCMHAEAH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cloud Cascade on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-41, silence through bars 42-48, hi-hat through bars 49-54, toms through bars 55-58 and snare through bars 59-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10                                               11
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----x-----x-----------x-----------x--x--------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |------x-----------------------x-----------------|x-----x--------------------------------x--------|
Cloud Cascade -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- C, M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-33 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-41 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED