Chandelier drums · Sia

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 5 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 87 BPM
CHANDELIER DRUMS · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 37 and 8 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 9 sections: 46 keep time, 14 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEJBCM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chandelier drums?

87 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 Chandelier drums hard to play on drums?

59 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Chandelier drums?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 37 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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