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Blunt Cough · Snuffed On Sight

EXERCISE 27 OF 28
Join Outro to Break 2 (bars 76-78)
70 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, BREAK 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART I
PART J
OUTRO
BREAK 2
10 groovesBJDGI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blunt Cough on drums

80 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 1:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 2-10, silence through bars 11-13, hi-hat through bars 14-45, snare through bars 46-53, toms through bars 54-69 and silence through bars 70-72, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 14-28 and 38-45 -- 43.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Blunt Cough -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 29 and 37.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-41 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-69 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 68-77 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Blunt Cough?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blunt Cough hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Blunt Cough?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 29 and 37.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED