Chameleon · Herbie Hancock

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 11 more places -- 84.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
CHAMELEON · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 4 sections: 94 keep time, 1 is a fill and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-87.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chameleon?

95 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 Chameleon hard to play on drums?

52 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Chameleon?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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