Cooler than Me · Ethan Fields

85 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 2:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-31 and 52-56, and 4 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 137 BPM
COOLER THAN ME · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 17, 29, 41 and 7 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 10 sections: 53 keep time, 13 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-66.

CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBIQJN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cooler than Me?

137 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 Cooler than Me hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Cooler than Me?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 17, 29, 41 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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