Swallow · Casiopea

170 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 24-26 and 36, and 2 more places -- 4.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 153 BPM
SWALLOW · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 5, 18, 28, 29, 30 and 38 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 11 sections: 106 keep time, 44 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-113.

PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AL
PART AZ
PART BL
PART CK
OUTRO 2
10 groovesLBLCKALDE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Swallow?

153 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 Swallow hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 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 Swallow?

21 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 5, 18, 28, 29, 30 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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