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Chicken Fried · Zac Brown Band

Chicken Fried · Zac Brown Band
EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART S10
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
13 groovesBS1COS10+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chicken Fried on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-30, silence through bars 31-33, hi-hat through bars 34-66, silence through bars 67-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-106, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Chicken Fried -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 28-147 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 54-66 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 82-115 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 121-146 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 146-162 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED