Cordelia · Tragically Hip

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-30, 32 and 36-38, and 8 more places -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CORDELIA · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 19, 20, 34, 35, 39, 51 and 7 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 5 sections: 77 keep time and 13 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cordelia?

90 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 Cordelia hard to play on drums?

47 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Cordelia?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 19, 20, 34, 35, 39, 51 and 7 more.

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