Cortez The Killer · Neil Young Crazy Horse

107 bars, 7:39, at 56 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
56 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
7:39
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74-101 -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 56 BPM
CORTEZ THE KILLER · BAR 75
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 40, 41, 70, 71, 72, 104 and 1 more.

LOOP · 56 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 56 BPM
BARS 70-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 56 BPM
BARS 104-105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 8 sections: 91 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-101.

PART B
PART C
PART F
PART H
PART J
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesNJCKF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cortez The Killer?

56 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Cortez The Killer hard to play on drums?

50 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 7:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Cortez The Killer?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 40, 41, 70, 71, 72, 104 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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