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Cosmic Sans · Cory Wong

Cosmic Sans · Cory Wong
EXERCISE 2 OF 41
Groove Z -- Part Z (a two-bar phrase)
6 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Z, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART G
PART K
CHORUS
PART Z
PART AF
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesTAFS1AMK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cosmic Sans on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-84, snare through bars 85-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-102.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-xxx-x---xx|
SD |-gg-xg-g-gg-xg-g|
FT |-----------x----|
BD |x------gx-------|
Cosmic Sans -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- T -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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