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Cosmic Ossuary · Lucretia

EXERCISE 2 OF 73
7-bar fill at bar 29
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0 / 73 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AR
PART AV
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesKS11ARBEAV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cosmic Ossuary on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
90/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-28, ride through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49 and ride through bars 50-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 7 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---xxxx|
Cosmic Ossuary -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 53 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part AR -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 9-29 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cosmic Ossuary?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Ossuary hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

21 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED