Chala Head Cha La · Dragon Ball Z

125 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 13-18 and 21-26, and 6 more places -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 154 BPM
CHALA HEAD CHA LA · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 10, 11, 19, 31, 36, 37 and 11 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 8 sections: 87 keep time, 19 are fills, 10 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-30.

CHORUS
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART L
5 groovesCLPS7S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chala Head Cha La?

154 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 Chala Head Cha La hard to play on drums?

55 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:15 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, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Chala Head Cha La?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 10, 11, 19, 31, 36, 37 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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