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Cheyne Stokes · Chelsea Grin

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove R -- Outro
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CHORUS
PART K
PART N
PART S
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFSADNR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cheyne Stokes on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-21 and snare through bars 22-46, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
Cheyne Stokes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- R, F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-40 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-44 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-64 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-78 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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