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Cortez The Killer · Dave Matthews Band

EXERCISE 13 OF 69
Run C1 · Part C (bars 18-36)
160 / 288 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNDCHAJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cortez The Killer on drums

288 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 10:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
288
LENGTH
10:01
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-56, hi-hat through bars 57-88, ride through bars 89-92, hi-hat through bars 93-96 and ride through bars 97-104, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 45 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 72 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- C, D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-73 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 80-99 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 108-121 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 117-145 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 142-198 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cortez The Killer?

115 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 Cortez The Killer hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

288 bars, about 10:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Cortez The Killer?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 72 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 288 BARS ANALYSED