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Chi · Korn

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove M -- Chorus 2
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PART E
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMGREAC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chi on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
90/100

hi-hat through bars 2-16, toms through bars 17-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, snare through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-48 and toms through bars 49-53, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-25, 34-40 and 54-61, and 1 more place -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x---x-x---------x---|
Chi -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 31, 32, 33, 53, 71 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- M -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chi?

126 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 Chi hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Chi?

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 31, 32, 33, 53, 71 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED