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Cough Syrup · Young The Giant

EXERCISE 14 OF 34
2-bar fill at bar 31 and 2 more
89 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cough Syrup on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-9, toms through bars 10-24, hi-hat through bars 25-34, snare through bars 35-36 and toms through bars 37-60, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |------------x---|
T2 |----x-x---------|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Cough Syrup -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C, P -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 33-68 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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