Quadrant 4 · Billy Cobham

81 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 1:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
1:21
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-19 and 21-31, and 2 more places -- 95.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 240 BPM
QUADRANT 4 · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 20, 32 and 40.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars: 77 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-81.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Quadrant 4?

240 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 Quadrant 4 hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 1:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid 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 Quadrant 4?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 20, 32 and 40.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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