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Coffee · Good Kid

EXERCISE 28 OF 31
Run N1 · Part N (bars 71-86)
86 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
CHORUS
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART H
PART N
OUTRO
8 groovesDGNHB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Coffee on drums

98 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, ride through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-40, hi-hat through bars 41-49 and ride through bars 50-81, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22 and 24, and 14 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 41, 49, 57 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-26 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Coffee?

180 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 Coffee hard to play on drums?

62 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Coffee?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 41, 49, 57 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED