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Chicago · Clueso

Chicago · Clueso
EXERCISE 26 OF 27
Run M1 · Outro 2 (bars 58-66)
53 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chicago on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-33, ride through bars 34-41, silence through bars 42-49 and ride through bars 50-57, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x-x-x--x-x--x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x-----|
Chicago -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-50 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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