Cold Waves · Bass Exercises

46 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:32 of playing, on crash, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
46
LENGTH
1:32
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 5 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
COLD WAVES · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

46 bars across 3 sections: 43 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cold Waves?

120 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 Waves hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

46 bars, about 1:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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