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Cheers to Us · Chelsea grin

EXERCISE 5 OF 65
Fill at bar 75 (a small one)
34 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART AF
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cheers to Us on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-10, snare through bars 11-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-36 and silence through bars 37-43, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--xxx-x---x---x-|
Cheers to Us -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- I, AF -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-131 -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-57 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-123 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-48 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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