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Cowboy Nudes · Geese

EXERCISE 21 OF 32
Run E2 · Part E (bars 79-83)
88 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJBEGAG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cowboy Nudes on drums

112 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, ride through bars 41-48, snare through bars 49-62 and toms through bars 63-64, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 25 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 40, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- E, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cowboy Nudes?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cowboy Nudes hard to play on drums?

64 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Nudes?

4 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 40, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED