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Chewing The Scenery · Seeyouspacecowboy

EXERCISE 14 OF 74
2-bar fill at bar 12
26 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART T
PART AA
PART AL
PART AQ
OUTRO 2
14 groovesS16AQAATAL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chewing The Scenery on drums

131 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 192 BPM, 3:25 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
192 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-43, snare through bars 44-61 and silence through bars 62-68, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77, 79 and 81, and 2 more places -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    79
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---x---|
HH |----------o---------|
SD |------x-------------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---|
Chewing The Scenery -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 21 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- AQ, T -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part T -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-30 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chewing The Scenery?

192 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Chewing The Scenery 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Chewing The Scenery?

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 21 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED