Coward · Vic Chesnutt

79 bars, 5:20, at 57 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
57 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 34-38 and 62-63, and 1 more place -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 57 BPM
COWARD · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 3 more.

LOOP · 57 BPM
BARS 10-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 12 sections: 36 keep time, 9 are fills, 7 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-28.

CHORUS
PART M
PART L
PART S7
CHORUS 2
PART S9
OUTRO
8 groovesBMLS7S9+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Coward?

57 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Coward hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Coward?

1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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