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Chiksilog · Kamikazee

EXERCISE 41 OF 62
Join Part A to Part R (bars 182-184)
301 / 343 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART R
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART A
PART R
PART C
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBIEFC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 12
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chiksilog on drums

343 bars at 350 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
350 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
343
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-108, kick and crashes through bars 109-110, toms through bars 111-127, hi-hat through bars 128-140 and toms through bars 141-142, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-22 and 31, and 31 more places -- 38.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-------o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----x-------x---|
Chiksilog -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 108, 125, 126, 134, 141, 142 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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, A, F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-46 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 50-63 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 78-127 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 4 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 172-185 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part R -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chiksilog?

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

Is Chiksilog hard to play on drums?

50 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

343 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 11 sittings, about 30 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 Chiksilog?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 108, 125, 126, 134, 141, 142 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 343 BARS ANALYSED