The Casualty · Cursive

108 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-12, 103-104 and 107 -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE CASUALTY · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 13 sections: 27 keep time, 5 are stops and 74 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-32.

PART A
PART G
BREAK 5
CHORUS
10 groovesS10S11AEG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Casualty?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Casualty hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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