Cool12 · Aexjs

109 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28, 37-44 and 78-93 -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
COOL12 · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 8 sections: 82 keep time and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEHAS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cool12?

150 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 Cool12 hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Aexjs drum parts

AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →