ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Champion on drums

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.

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

TEMPO: 92 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 61
LENGTH: 2:38
DIFFICULTY: 61/100

hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, ride through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-36 and ride through bars 37-47, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x-------------x-|
RD |----------------|------------X---|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o---o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-----|
SD |----xx------fx--|----xx------X---|
T2 |----------------|-------------x--|
BD |x-x----x---x----|x-x----x---x--x-|
HF |------------x---|----------------|

Champion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- E, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 2-11 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Bars 25-31 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through Part O and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
and 3 more sittings after that.

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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