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Chelsea Smile · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 40 OF 81
Groove AC
154 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART AG
PART C
OUTRO 2
12 groovesICAGEA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chelsea Smile on drums

239 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-50, hi-hat through bars 51-52, snare through bars 53-54, hi-hat through bars 55-56, snare through bars 57-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-62, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-35 and 37-39, and 12 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Chelsea Smile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 40, 42, 48 and 22 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 -- I, C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-67 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 98-107 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chelsea Smile?

200 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 Chelsea Smile hard to play on drums?

53 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Chelsea Smile?

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 40, 42, 48 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED