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Chimes At Midnight · Mastodon

EXERCISE 11 OF 68
Groove C
84 / 214 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AL
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesPS8BACAL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chimes At Midnight on drums

214 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 119 BPM, 10:07 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
10:07
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, snare through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-39, snare through bars 40-56, hi-hat through bars 57-71 and snare through bars 72-88, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 16 more places -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--g---X---g---g---X---g-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Chimes At Midnight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 50 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- P -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-25 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AB -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chimes At Midnight?

119 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Chimes At Midnight hard to play on drums?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 10:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 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 Chimes At Midnight?

21 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED