← SONGS

Chemically Altered · Municipal Waste

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove L -- Part L
0 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
PART L
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBLEWT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chemically Altered on drums

157 bars at 300 BPM -- fast, and 2:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
300 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-42, hi-hat through bars 43-53, ride through bars 54-60 and toms through bars 61-62, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-53, 63-69 and 71-77, and 2 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Chemically Altered -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 29, 41, 45 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- L -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-112 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Chemically Altered?

300 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 Chemically Altered hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Chemically Altered?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 29, 41, 45 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED