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Proto Cosmos · Greg Howe, Victor Wooten, Dennis Chambers

Proto Cosmos · Greg Howe, Victor Wooten, Dennis Chambers
EXERCISE 14 OF 83
Join Part K to Chorus (bars 20-22)
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PART K
CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Proto Cosmos on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
75/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-11, hi-hat through bars 12-43, ride through bars 44-56, hi-hat through bars 57-62 and ride through bars 63-81, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    28
    1...........2...........3...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x--------------x--------|
BD |x--------x-----------x--------------|
Proto Cosmos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-34 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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