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Cowgirls from Heaven · Shunned at a Funeral

Cowgirls from Heaven · Shunned at a Funeral
EXERCISE 14 OF 70
Groove L
85 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART A
CHORUS
PART B
PART N
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEABXN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cowgirls from Heaven on drums

155 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-38, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13 and 17-19, and 16 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    39
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Cowgirls from Heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part B and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-42 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cowgirls from Heaven?

134 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Cowgirls from Heaven hard to play on drums?

61 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Cowgirls from Heaven?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED