Proto Cosmos · Greg Howe, Victor Wooten, Dennis Chambers

161 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 126 BPM, 4:02 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 28 and 31-34, and 2 more places -- 7.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
PROTO COSMOS · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 47 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 15 sections: 83 keep time, 53 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-101.

PART K
PART U
PART W
PART AI
PART W
PART O
PART BD
PART BN
OUTRO
12 groovesRWKOBD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Proto Cosmos?

126 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Proto Cosmos hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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 Proto Cosmos?

13 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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