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Chemicals (full) · Tigers Jaw

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chemicals (full) on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-44, snare through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-58 and snare through bars 59-71.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- A, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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