Joe Cool · bih

148 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43 and 45, and 11 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
JOE COOL · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 40, 72, 90 and 4 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 21 sections: 93 keep time, 10 are fills, 21 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-56.

PART G
PART O
CHORUS
PART S10
PART AF
PART AI
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
18 groovesTOS10GAW+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Joe Cool?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Joe Cool hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 Joe Cool?

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 40, 72, 90 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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