Cocaine · Eric Clapton

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40-43 and 46-51, and 5 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
COCAINE · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 8, 17, 18, 22, 31 and 10 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 6 sections: 67 keep time and 16 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-92.

PART A
CHORUS
PART R
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesERAXFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cocaine?

105 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 Cocaine hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Cocaine?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 8, 17, 18, 22, 31 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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