Cocktail Molotov (Arcane) · Zand

106 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 15 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
COCKTAIL MOLOTOV (ARCANE) · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 72, 73, 81, 104, 105 and 106.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 104-106 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 9 sections: 65 keep time, 6 are fills, 22 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-29.

CHORUS
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesDFGHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cocktail Molotov (Arcane)?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cocktail Molotov (Arcane) hard to play on drums?

47 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Cocktail Molotov (Arcane)?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 72, 73, 81, 104, 105 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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