Cops and Robbers · Underscores

177 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 11 more places -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
COPS AND ROBBERS · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 28, 32 and 177.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 177
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 16 sections: 125 keep time, 4 are fills, 4 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-70.

PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART S14
OUTRO
12 groovesHFS14VAK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cops and Robbers?

140 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 Cops and Robbers hard to play on drums?

49 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Cops and Robbers?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 28, 32 and 177.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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