Modern Day Cowboy · Tesla

141 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 47-50 and 98-103 -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
MODERN DAY COWBOY · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 18, 45, 46 and 9 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 119-123 · LANDS ON BAR 124 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 16 sections: 90 keep time, 17 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-31.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART M
PART T
PART M
PART T
PART K
9 groovesITMRK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Modern Day Cowboy?

114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Modern Day Cowboy hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Modern Day Cowboy?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 18, 45, 46 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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