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Kascade · Not Animals As Leaders

EXERCISE 3 OF 40
5-bar fill at bar 40
8 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
PART L
PART W
PART S6
PART AO
PART S8
OUTRO 2
10 groovesS10S6LS8W+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kascade on drums

143 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 5:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
160 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, snare through bars 18-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30, toms through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-45, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-20 and 25-26 -- 6.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19                   20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-----g---g-----|x-g-g-----x---g-g-----g-|
BD |------x-x-------x-x-|------x-x-------x-x-----|
Kascade -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- M (a two-bar phrase), W -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part W and Part S6 -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-19 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-35 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-45 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part S6 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part AO and Part S8 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kascade?

160 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Kascade 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Kascade?

9 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED