Cockroach Waltz · Jack Off Jill

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-24, 43-48 and 57-64 -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 84 BPM
COCKROACH WALTZ · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 40 and 72.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 8 sections: 56 keep time, 3 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-32.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGCBMA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cockroach Waltz?

84 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 Cockroach Waltz hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Cockroach Waltz?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 40 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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