cool boy · Jesus a

93 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 220 BPM, 0:51 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
0:51
DIFFICULTY
20/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 30-31 and 34-35, and 11 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
COOL BOY · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 21 and 57.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 7 sections: 54 keep time, 3 are fills, 31 are stops and 59 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-93.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesS7AECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is cool boy?

220 BPM, in 2/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is cool boy hard to play on drums?

20 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 0:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 cool boy?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 21 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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