Cocaine Cowgirl · Matt Mays

11 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 0:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
11
LENGTH
0:20
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-8 -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
COCAINE COWGIRL · BARS 3-4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 10.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

11 bars across 2 sections: 7 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-8.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cocaine Cowgirl?

132 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 Cocaine Cowgirl hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

11 bars, about 0:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Cocaine Cowgirl?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 10.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 11 BARS ANALYSED
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