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Ball And Chain · Social Distortion

EXERCISE 29 OF 33
Join Part I to Outro (bars 179-181)
168 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
PART E
PART E
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
PART I
OUTRO
10 groovesCEDIA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ball And Chain on drums

186 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-55, silence through bars 56-58 and ride through bars 59-66, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 16 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x-----x-----x--|
Ball And Chain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 82, 140, 185 and 186.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-45 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-67 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 82-124 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 121-180 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Ball And Chain?

132 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 Ball And Chain hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Ball And Chain?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 82, 140, 185 and 186.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED