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EXERCISE 25 OF 37
Fill at bar 56 (a small one)
75 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chemical Heart on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 3-22, ride through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-42, ride through bars 43-60, hi-hat through bars 61-68 and ride through bars 69-87.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--xx-----|
Chemical Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-23 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-53 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-81 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED