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Au Pays du Cocaine · Geese

EXERCISE 3 OF 27
Groove P -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 27 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHAPEIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Au Pays du Cocaine on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-34, toms through bars 35-43 and ride through bars 44-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-30, 32-33 and 44-55, and 1 more place -- 35.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x--x--------x--|
HF |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Au Pays du Cocaine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 63, 65, 74, 75 and 76.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-64 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Au Pays du Cocaine?

79 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 Au Pays du Cocaine hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Au Pays du Cocaine?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 63, 65, 74, 75 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED