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Corduroy · Pearl Jam

EXERCISE 5 OF 48
Groove E -- Part E
72 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART R
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMJHES1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Corduroy on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-15, toms through bars 16-17, ride through bars 18-27, hi-hat through bars 28-43 and ride through bars 44-52, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-38, 40-43 and 97-105, and 1 more place -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    98
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Corduroy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 17, 35, 39, 53, 73 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- M, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Corduroy?

132 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 Corduroy hard to play on drums?

51 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Corduroy?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 17, 35, 39, 53, 73 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED