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Chest Pain (I Love) · Malcolm Todd

EXERCISE 25 OF 25
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFS7BHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chest Pain (I Love) on drums

82 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 76 BPM, 3:14 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-49, ride through bars 50-58 and silence through bars 59-74, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8 and 34-40 -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......
BD |X---x---x---X---x---x---|
Chest Pain (I Love) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 41, 52, 56, 57, 81 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-51 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Chest Pain (I Love)?

76 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Chest Pain (I Love) hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Chest Pain (I Love)?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 41, 52, 56, 57, 81 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED