I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby! · CMAT

141 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 8 and 10-12, and 22 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
I WANNA BE A COWBOY, BABY! · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 49, 74, 82, 90, 119, 139 and 2 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 139-141 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 9 sections: 121 keep time, 8 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-48.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBJPDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby!?

110 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 I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby! hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

141 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby!?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 49, 74, 82, 90, 119, 139 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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