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Cosmic · A7x

Cosmic · A7x
EXERCISE 11 OF 82
Groove G -- Part G
85 / 219 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART G
PART M
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AN
OUTRO 2
14 groovesZANMAFG+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cosmic on drums

219 bars, 13:54, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
13:54
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-27, silence through bars 28-29, ride through bars 30-51, toms through bars 52-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-73, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 94-96, 98-100 and 102-104, and 16 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    96
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Cosmic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 24, 51, 52, 53, 61, 69 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- Z, M, B -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part Q -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cosmic?

63 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 Cosmic hard to play on drums?

53 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 13:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Cosmic?

18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 24, 51, 52, 53, 61, 69 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED