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Quadrant 4 · Billy Cobham

Quadrant 4 · Billy Cobham
EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove A -- Outro
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0 / 10 PASSED · 77 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Quadrant 4 on drums

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

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
1:21
DIFFICULTY
100/100

The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    1
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x---x-x-----x---x-|
SD |--g---x-------g---x-----|
BD |x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
Quadrant 4 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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