โคม่า · Solid core

185 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 34-41, and 19 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
โคม่า · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 42, 43 and 25 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 11 sections: 137 keep time, 31 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-33.

PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART T
PART W
7 groovesDGTPW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is โคม่า?

135 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 โคม่า hard to play on drums?

53 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 โคม่า?

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 42, 43 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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