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Cockroaches · Nailbomb

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFHBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cockroaches on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-44, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----X-------X--X|
BD |x-x--xx-xx---x--|
Cockroaches -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-75 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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