Cough Drops · almost monday

103 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 15 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 153 BPM
COUGH DROPS · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 27, 35, 43, 51, 63, 79 and 4 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 102-103 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 10 sections: 67 keep time, 10 are fills, 6 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-94.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART D
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBKCDS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cough Drops?

153 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 Cough Drops hard to play on drums?

48 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Cough Drops?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 27, 35, 43, 51, 63, 79 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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