Chicago · Clueso

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-17 and 25-32 -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
CHICAGO · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 33, 40, 49, 53 and 57.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 8 sections: 43 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-17.

PART S1
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCJMS6E+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chicago?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Chicago hard to play on drums?

46 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Chicago?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 33, 40, 49, 53 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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