Chemical World · Blur

164 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 37 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 166 BPM
CHEMICAL WORLD · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 12 sections: 93 keep time, 2 are fills, 47 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-35.

PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART S8
PART A
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDHAS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chemical World?

166 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 Chemical World hard to play on drums?

46 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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