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Coconut Crab · TTNG

Coconut Crab · TTNG
EXERCISE 4 OF 58
Groove J -- Part J
18 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Coconut Crab on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-31, toms through bars 32-33, hi-hat through bars 34-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-50, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-54, 57 and 63, and 1 more place -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51       52
    1e+a2e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------|------x---------|
SD |x--xx---|--x-------x-----|
BD |--x---x-|x---x-x-----x-x-|
Coconut Crab -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- Y, F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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