Champion · Grinspoon

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-9, 19-21 and 31-33, and 1 more place -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
CHAMPION · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 10, 18, 20 and 14 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 12 sections: 28 keep time, 20 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-17.

PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEHPOC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Champion?

92 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 Champion hard to play on drums?

61 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Champion?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 10, 18, 20 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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