Cool Off · Session Road

118 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-25 -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
COOL OFF · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 30, 34, 44, 46, 48 and 8 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 13 sections: 86 keep time, 14 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-25.

CHORUS
PART D
PART H
PART J
PART D
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBDHFP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cool Off?

125 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 Cool Off hard to play on drums?

46 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Cool Off?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 30, 34, 44, 46, 48 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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