Cheyne Stokes · Chelsea Grin

97 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-31, 33 and 37, and 11 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
CHEYNE STOKES · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 5, 20, 21, 25, 29 and 8 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 9 sections: 53 keep time, 14 are fills, 15 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-61.

CHORUS
PART K
PART N
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFSADNR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cheyne Stokes?

135 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 Cheyne Stokes hard to play on drums?

64 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 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Cheyne Stokes?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 5, 20, 21, 25, 29 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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