Cowboy Gangster Politician · Goldie Boutilier

114 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-10, 16-25 and 31-40, and 5 more places -- 55.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
COWBOY GANGSTER POLITICIAN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 41 and 81.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 11 sections: 97 keep time, 3 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-40.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART K
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
6 groovesBKLCH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cowboy Gangster Politician?

130 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 Cowboy Gangster Politician hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Cowboy Gangster Politician?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 41 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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