Cheers to Us · Chelsea grin

150 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 20, and 18 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 196 BPM
CHEERS TO US · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 18, 25, 27 and 39 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 27-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 17 sections: 68 keep time, 45 are fills, 6 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-110.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART S9
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART AH
14 groovesIAHTDS9+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cheers to Us?

196 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 Cheers to Us hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cheers to Us?

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 18, 25, 27 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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