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Chehra · Vital Signs

Chehra · Vital Signs
EXERCISE 9 OF 18
Groove I
153 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHFS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chehra on drums

167 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 5:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-167.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 15-17 and 19-25, and 20 more places -- 69.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Chehra -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 66-132 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Chehra?

116 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 Chehra hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED