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87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 43, and 13 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 77 BPM
CHEMICAL HEART · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 34, 38, 42 and 15 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 10 sections: 56 keep time, 21 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-12.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGBDS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chemical Heart?

77 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 Chemical Heart hard to play on drums?

59 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Chemical Heart?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 34, 38, 42 and 15 more.

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