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Colorado Bulldog · Mr. Big 90s

Colorado Bulldog · Mr. Big 90s
EXERCISE 6 OF 37
Groove E
77 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesDFHNT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Colorado Bulldog on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-21, ride through bars 22-24, snare through bars 25-26 and ride through bars 27-39, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 22-23, and 9 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Colorado Bulldog -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 21 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 14-27 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-65 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-94 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Colorado Bulldog?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Colorado Bulldog hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.

How many fills are in Colorado Bulldog?

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 21 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED