Cockroach King · Haken

167 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 7:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
7:51
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32 and 70-76 -- 5.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
COCKROACH KING · BAR 70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 31, 36, 37 and 51 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 20 sections: 57 keep time, 57 are fills, 17 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-26.

PART J
PART X
PART Q
CHORUS
PART BI
PART AZ
19 groovesATAZXBIQ+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cockroach King?

85 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 Cockroach King hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 7:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 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 Cockroach King?

22 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 31, 36, 37 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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