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I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby! · CMAT

EXERCISE 6 OF 33
Groove E
115 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby! on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-56, toms through bars 57-58, ride through bars 59-138 and snare through bars 139-141.

The beat

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.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B, J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-119 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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