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500 Channels · Choking Victim

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove P -- Outro 2
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0 / 36 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesPIHNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 500 Channels on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
85/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-24, ride through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-69, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 35 and 38-39, and 6 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--xx-x-x--|
500 Channels -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 500 Channels?

117 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 500 Channels hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 500 Channels?

11 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED