Cheepnis · Frank Zappa

155 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 33, 34, 35 and 31 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 64-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 24 sections: 81 keep time, 37 are fills, 3 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-63.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART Z
PART AT
PART BD
OUTRO 2
21 groovesKATZBLF+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cheepnis?

100 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 Cheepnis 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 6:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Cheepnis?

6 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 33, 34, 35 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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