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cool boy · Jesus a

cool boy · Jesus a
EXERCISE 14 OF 15
Run E2 · Outro (bars 63-93)
46 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesS7AECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play cool boy on drums

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.

20 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
0:51
DIFFICULTY
20/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-19, toms through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-31, hi-hat through bars 32-33 and snare through bars 34-48, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30
    1e+a2e+a
SD |x---x---|
BD |x---x---|
cool boy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- E, G -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 19-62 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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