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Cocaine - Live Madison Square Garden · Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood

Cocaine - Live Madison Square Garden · Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood
EXERCISE 17 OF 38
3-bar fill at bar 77 and 1 more
142 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART J
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
4 groovesCJRS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cocaine - Live Madison Square Garden on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
50/100

ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-31, toms through bars 32-33, hi-hat through bars 34-65, snare through bars 66-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-77, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-16 and 20-22, and 14 more places -- 57.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Cocaine - Live Madison Square Garden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 23, 31, 32 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C, J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 77-106 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 5 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 5 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cocaine - Live Madison Square Garden?

110 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 - Live Madison Square Garden hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cocaine - Live Madison Square Garden?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 23, 31, 32 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED