Chic 'N' Stu · System of a Down

113 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 33-40 and 89-96 -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
CHIC 'N' STU · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 59, 60 and 7 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 87-88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 13 sections: 69 keep time, 13 are fills, 15 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-85.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesBKEFA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chic 'N' Stu?

192 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Chic 'N' Stu hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Chic 'N' Stu?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 59, 60 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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