Cockroaches · Nailbomb

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-24, 29-38 and 75-84, and 4 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
COCKROACHES · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 26, 28, 40, 42, 58, 64 and 6 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 6 sections: 86 keep time, 13 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-25.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFHBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cockroaches?

90 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 Cockroaches hard to play on drums?

63 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Cockroaches?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 26, 28, 40, 42, 58, 64 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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