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Chemicals Between Us · Bush

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove B -- Chorus 2
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PART A
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCAS6S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chemicals Between Us on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-54, silence through bars 55-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 23 and 27, and 9 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x---x--xx----|
Chemicals Between Us -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 34, 42 and 68.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-31 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-80 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Chemicals Between Us?

98 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 Chemicals Between Us hard to play on drums?

57 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Chemicals Between Us?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 34, 42 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED