Chattahoochee · Alan Jackson

175 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / Folk150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 11-17 and 19-38, and 5 more places -- 90.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 170 BPM
CHATTAHOOCHEE · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars: 171 keep time and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-174.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chattahoochee?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Chattahoochee hard to play on drums?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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