Cool Guy · Spazz

32 bars at 227 BPM -- fast, and 0:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
227 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
32
LENGTH
0:34
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 3 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 227 BPM
COOL GUY · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 3.

LOOP · 227 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

32 bars across 4 sections: 18 keep time, 1 is a fill, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-22.

BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEIS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cool Guy?

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

Is Cool Guy hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

32 bars, about 0:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Cool Guy?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 3.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 32 BARS ANALYSED
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