Cough Syrup · Young The Giant

125 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23 and 37-43 -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 129 BPM
COUGH SYRUP · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 24, 28, 31, 32, 34, 35 and 19 more.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BARS 34-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 9 sections: 70 keep time, 25 are fills, 10 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-106.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGCPNS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cough Syrup?

129 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 Syrup hard to play on drums?

59 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cough Syrup?

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 24, 28, 31, 32, 34, 35 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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