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Cologne · Beabadoobee

EXERCISE 11 OF 22
Chorus 2 into Part I with the record (bars 29-36)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART I
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cologne on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
56/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 33 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 54.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-34 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-58 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 57-85 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cologne?

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 Cologne hard to play on drums?

56 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?

88 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cologne?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 54.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED