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Cobra · Geese

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
5 groovesBEDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cobra on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-36 and ride through bars 37-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-36 -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    12               13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-|r-r-r-r-r-x-r-r-|
BD |x-----g-x-----g-|x-----g-x-----g-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
Cobra -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 73.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cobra?

118 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 Cobra hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Cobra?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED