Coconut Crab · TTNG

135 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 58 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 13 sections: 44 keep time, 64 are fills, 6 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-38.

PART C
PART J
PART P
PART S
PART Y
PART Y
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAZYCJP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Coconut Crab?

140 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 Coconut Crab hard to play on drums?

48 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Coconut Crab?

11 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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