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Chewing Gum · Amyl And The Sniffers

EXERCISE 20 OF 33
Groove K -- Outro
80 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, OUTRO
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCJKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chewing Gum on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 28-30 and 32, and 9 more places -- 37.8% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
Chewing Gum -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 17, 21, 31, 33, 37 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-42 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-70 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 11 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Chewing Gum?

115 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 Chewing Gum hard to play on drums?

51 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Chewing Gum?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 17, 21, 31, 33, 37 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED