Cosby Sweater · Hilltop Hoods

113 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 9-11 and 13-15, and 26 more places -- 45.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
COSBY SWEATER · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 15 sections: 98 keep time, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-112.

CHORUS
PART F
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesCEFS7S11+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cosby Sweater?

124 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 Cosby Sweater hard to play on drums?

46 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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