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Cockroach Waltz · Jack Off Jill

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove G -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cockroach Waltz on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24, toms through bars 25-30 and snare through bars 31-33, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-x-----x-x---x-|
Cockroach Waltz -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-49 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-64 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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