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

EXERCISE 22 OF 55
Fill at bar 50 and 58 (a small one)
56 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART O
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Was Once, Possibly, Maybe, Perhaps A Cowboy King on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-42, snare through bars 43-70, silence through bars 71-78, snare through bars 79-95 and silence through bars 96-98, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9                                10
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x---x-x-x-x-|
I Was Once, Possibly, Maybe, Perhaps A Cowboy King -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part O and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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