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Cooler than Me · Ethan Fields

Cooler than Me · Ethan Fields
EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove I -- Part I
0 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cooler than Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-56, toms through bars 57-66, snare through bars 67-68, hi-hat through bars 69-80 and snare through bars 81-85.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Cooler than Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- I, B -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-25 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-42 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-69 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-85 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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