Cosmic Sans · Cory Wong

102 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39, 41 and 43, and 3 more places -- 6.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
COSMIC SANS · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 and 3 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 94-102 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 11 sections: 64 keep time, 9 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-64.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART G
PART K
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesTAFS1AMK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cosmic Sans?

114 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 Sans hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 19 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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 Sans?

1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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