Cheerio · Justen de Wildt

79 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-25 and 36-37, and 5 more places -- 49.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
CHEERIO · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 13, 38, 51, 55, 63 and 1 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 7 sections: 57 keep time, 7 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-25.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDJBHNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cheerio?

130 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 Cheerio hard to play on drums?

57 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?

79 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Cheerio?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 13, 38, 51, 55, 63 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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