Chemicals (full) · Tigers Jaw

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-25, and 2 more places -- 54.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
CHEMICALS (FULL) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 34 and 58.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 3 sections: 46 keep time, 3 are fills and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-25.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chemicals (full)?

100 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 (full) hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Chemicals (full)?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 34 and 58.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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