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Chandelier drums · Sia

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove E -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chandelier drums on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-29, ride through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-41 and toms through bars 42-45, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--xx-----|
Chandelier drums -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-14 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-30 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-42 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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