Chick's Pain · Mathieu Fiset

47 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 1:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesElectronic120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
1:26
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24 and 26-31 -- 45.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
CHICK'S PAIN · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 33.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

47 bars across 5 sections: 38 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHEMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chick's Pain?

130 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 Chick's Pain hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 1:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 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 Chick's Pain?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 33.

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