Midnight Rendezvous · Casiopea

144 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 5:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 30, and 4 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
MIDNIGHT RENDEZVOUS · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 25.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 16 sections: 115 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

PART E
PART L
PART Z
PART AO
CHORUS
PART G
PART BJ
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAUELZBJ+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Midnight Rendezvous?

104 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 Midnight Rendezvous hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 22 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Midnight Rendezvous?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 25.

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