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Cortez The Killer · Neil Young Crazy Horse

Cortez The Killer · Neil Young Crazy Horse
EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove N -- Outro
0 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cortez The Killer on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
56 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
7:39
DIFFICULTY
50/100

The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    75
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----xxxx|
BD |x--x----x--x----|
Cortez The Killer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- N, J -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-42 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-66 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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