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Chains on the Wind · Morgan Luna

Chains on the Wind · Morgan Luna
EXERCISE 4 OF 26
Groove C -- Part C
114 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART E
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDES1CH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chains on the Wind on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-158.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Chains on the Wind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- D, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 56-115 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 134-152 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED