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Cocaine · Eric Clapton

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove R -- Part R
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0 / 39 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, PART X, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART R
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesERAXFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cocaine on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, ride through bars 37-60, hi-hat through bars 61-80 and ride through bars 81-92.

The beat

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.

    38
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---X-------x---x---x-x-g-g-x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---x---------------|
Cocaine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-72 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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