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Cheepnis · Frank Zappa

EXERCISE 12 OF 71
Groove J
34 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 1
SECTION · 17
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cheepnis on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-11, toms through bars 12-14, hi-hat through bars 15-33, snare through bars 34-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-37, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-16, 18-19 and 21-22, and 1 more place -- 5.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15             16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x-|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------xx--|x-x-------xx----|
Cheepnis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- F, Z -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-23 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Z -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Z -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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