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Chic 'N' Stu · System of a Down

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chic 'N' Stu on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, toms through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-44, toms through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56 and ride through bars 57-88, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-------x---x-|
Chic 'N' Stu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B, F -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-45 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-108 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-49 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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