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Cocho Cocho · Utsu-P

EXERCISE 18 OF 60
Groove R -- Part R (a two-bar phrase)
62 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART A
PART H
PART R
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AG
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesWABTAGH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cocho Cocho on drums

122 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-52, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-34 and 36, and 4 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
Cocho Cocho -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 32, 35, 44, 50, 72, 73 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- T -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-30 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part T and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cocho Cocho?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cocho Cocho hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Cocho Cocho?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 32, 35, 44, 50, 72, 73 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED