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.

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

TEMPO

112 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

208

LENGTH

7:26

DIFFICULTY

60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-124, ride through bars 125-144, hi-hat through bars 145-152 and ride through bars 153-156, and 1 more change after that.

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x------x-|-x--x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|--x-----x-x---x-|

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

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
2. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
5. Through Part O and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
6. Bars 132-139 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.