Cold Sweat · James Brown

208 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 7:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
7:26
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-30, 37-64 and 69-89, and 11 more places -- 79.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
COLD SWEAT · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 143, 144, 153, 154, 155, 156 and 1 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 143-144 · LANDS ON BAR 145 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 153-156 · LANDS ON BAR 157 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 192 · LANDS ON BAR 193
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 9 sections: 193 keep time, 7 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-125.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAOSRS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cold Sweat?

112 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 Cold Sweat hard to play on drums?

60 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 7:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Cold Sweat?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 143, 144, 153, 154, 155, 156 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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