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Chernobyl Hamster · Nuclear Rabbit

Chernobyl Hamster · Nuclear Rabbit
EXERCISE 17 OF 70
Join Part G to Chorus (bars 15-17)
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0 / 70 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART N
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART BA
PART AU
OUTRO
11 groovesINPAUE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chernobyl Hamster on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44 and ride through bars 45-52, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-26, and 9 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Chernobyl Hamster -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 40, 44 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-17 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chernobyl Hamster?

148 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Chernobyl Hamster hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 Chernobyl Hamster?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 40, 44 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED