Gold Cobra · Limp Bizkit

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 49-56 and 65-72 -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 87 BPM
GOLD COBRA · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 48 and 64.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 11 sections: 63 keep time, 4 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

CHORUS
VERSE
PART F
VERSE 2
PART F
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFCDGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gold Cobra?

87 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 Gold Cobra hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Gold Cobra?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 48 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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