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Chameleon · Herbie Hancock

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 9 PASSED · 80 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chameleon on drums

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

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-101.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |---x--------x---|
BD |x--------xx-----|
Chameleon -- 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 37.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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