Chicken Fried · Zac Brown Band

165 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Country / FolkPop150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 42-57 and 74-76, and 5 more places -- 52.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
CHICKEN FRIED · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 113.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 17 sections: 101 keep time, 1 is a fill, 8 are stops and 41 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-104.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S10
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
13 groovesBS1COS10+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chicken Fried?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Chicken Fried hard to play on drums?

64 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Chicken Fried?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 113.

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