Chasing The Drums (AI) · Yussef Dayes

187 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 5:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-36, 38-45 and 47-48, and 8 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 134 BPM
CHASING THE DRUMS (AI) · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 25, 85, 86, 87, 103 and 2 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 85-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 118-119 · LANDS ON BAR 120 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 21 sections: 120 keep time, 8 are fills and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-54.

PART C
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART AA
PART S18
15 groovesHCS18AAAB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chasing The Drums (AI)?

134 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 Chasing The Drums (AI) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Chasing The Drums (AI)?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 25, 85, 86, 87, 103 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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