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Cosmic Girl · Jamiroquai

EXERCISE 24 OF 28
Fill at bar 104 (a small one)
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0 / 28 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesIEAS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cosmic Girl on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-116.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 65-71, and 10 more places -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 64, 72 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- I, E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Verse 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-88 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cosmic Girl?

120 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 Cosmic Girl hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Cosmic Girl?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 64, 72 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED