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Cocoon · Catfish and the Bottlemen

Cocoon · Catfish and the Bottlemen
EXERCISE 34 OF 61
Fill at bar 63 and 103 (a small one)
101 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART X
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
OUTRO
7 groovesIDXBG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cocoon on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-21, toms through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-87, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 56-58, and 7 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Cocoon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 29, 38, 39 and 16 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 -- I, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-30 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-40 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-59 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cocoon?

131 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 Cocoon hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Cocoon?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 29, 38, 39 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED