Chains on the Wind · Morgan Luna

158 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-55, 68-75 and 80-83, and 2 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CHAINS ON THE WIND · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 18.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 17 sections: 123 keep time, 1 is a fill and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-55.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART E
OUTRO
6 groovesDES1CH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chains on the Wind?

120 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 Chains on the Wind hard to play on drums?

47 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 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 Chains on the Wind?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 18.

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