ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tbc - The Cobra on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 104 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 78
LENGTH: 3:00
DIFFICULTY: 89/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, silence through bars 8-11, snare through bars 12-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-36 and ride through bars 37-46, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 53-55, and 1 more place -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28                               29
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|----------------------------x---|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-----|
SD |------x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x---x---x-----x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x-x-x---|

Tbc - The Cobra -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 27, 31, 40, 46, 51 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 11-28 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 34-44 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Bars 46-53 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
and 2 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Tbc - The Cobra?

104 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Tbc - The Cobra hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 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 Tbc - The Cobra?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 27, 31, 40, 46, 51 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED