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CHAINMAIL COMMANDOS · Steroïd

EXERCISE 25 OF 28
Run K1 · Outro (bars 73-82)
102 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIEDKB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play CHAINMAIL COMMANDOS on drums

105 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 2:07 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, snare through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-44 and snare through bars 45-46, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 17-32, and 11 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 12, 33, 34, 37, 38 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-10 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-76 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is CHAINMAIL COMMANDOS?

198 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is CHAINMAIL COMMANDOS hard to play on drums?

59 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in CHAINMAIL COMMANDOS?

2 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 12, 33, 34, 37, 38 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED