I Was Once, Possibly, Maybe, Perhaps A Cowboy King · Asking Alexandria

118 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15 and 17-23 -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
I WAS ONCE, POSSIBLY, MAYBE, PERHAPS A COWBOY KING · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 16, 42, 50, 58, 63 and 6 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 14 sections: 82 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-41.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
PART P
BREAK
PART S
PART AA
13 groovesGDSACO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Was Once, Possibly, Maybe, Perhaps A Cowboy King?

130 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 Was Once, Possibly, Maybe, Perhaps A Cowboy King hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Was Once, Possibly, Maybe, Perhaps A Cowboy King?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 16, 42, 50, 58, 63 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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