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Chelsea Smile (Oficial Video) · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 40 OF 72
Groove AD -- Part AD
106 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AD
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AE
PART AG
PART C
PART A
9 groovesGCAAGAD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chelsea Smile (Oficial Video) on drums

145 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

50 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
145
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-36, hi-hat through bars 37-38, snare through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42, snare through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-48, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-25 and 36, and 10 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Chelsea Smile (Oficial Video) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 16, 20, 26, 28, 34, 38 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- G, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-53 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 76-85 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part S7 and Part AD -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chelsea Smile (Oficial Video)?

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 (Oficial Video) hard to play on drums?

50 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?

145 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 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 Chelsea Smile (Oficial Video)?

18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 16, 20, 26, 28, 34, 38 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED