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The Casualty · Cursive

The Casualty · Cursive
EXERCISE 4 OF 14
Join Part A to Break (bars 12-14)
25 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, BREAK
PART A
BREAK
PART G
BREAK 5
CHORUS
10 groovesS10S11AEG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Casualty on drums

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

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
28/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, silence through bars 33-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-108.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|------x---x-----|
The Casualty -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- A, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 12-26 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 27-108 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED