The Importance of Cocaine · Dance Gavin Dance

229 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 4:33 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 145-151, 153-159 and 161-167, and 1 more place -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE IMPORTANCE OF COCAINE · BAR 146
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 32, 38, 40, 44, 46, 48 and 33 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

229 bars across 24 sections: 67 keep time, 39 are fills, 75 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 161-167.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART S16
PART Y
OUTRO
12 groovesDCYBT+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Importance of Cocaine?

150 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Importance of Cocaine hard to play on drums?

40 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Importance of Cocaine?

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 32, 38, 40, 44, 46, 48 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED
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