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The Cisco Kid · War

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART P
OUTRO
13 groovesEBGQP+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 18
LINK · 1
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Cisco Kid on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
30/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-6, toms through bars 7-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-35, hi-hat through bars 36-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-53, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 13-18 and 31-35, and 3 more places -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|
The Cisco Kid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 51, 59, 67 and 111.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- B, G, K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 46-92 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 59-71 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-91 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-100 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Cisco Kid?

142 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Cisco Kid hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 The Cisco Kid?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 51, 59, 67 and 111.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED