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The Importance of Cocaine · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 39 OF 73
Join Chorus 3 to Part C (bars 95-97)
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0 / 73 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART C
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART C
PART S16
PART Y
OUTRO
12 groovesDCYBT+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Importance of Cocaine on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32, ride through bars 33-123, snare through bars 124-133, silence through bars 134-144 and snare through bars 145-172, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    146
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |x---x-x-xxxx|
BD |x-----------|
The Importance of Cocaine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-42 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 11 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-83 -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 95-104 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 103-177 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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