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Cool Off · Session Road
EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cool Off on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 3-35, ride through bars 36-50, snare through bars 51-55, hi-hat through bars 56-70, snare through bars 71-80 and ride through bars 81-95, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------------|
Cool Off -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- B, D -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-60 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-86 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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