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Chip · The Real Mckenzies

Chip · The Real Mckenzies
EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove L -- Chorus
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0 / 22 PASSED · 85 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART E
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesLCEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chip on drums

132 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, toms through bars 19-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-24, toms through bars 25-26 and snare through bars 27-28, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-87 and 104-129 -- 66.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 9, 22, 27, 28, 102 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 1-11 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-32 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Chip?

160 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 Chip hard to play on drums?

59 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Chip?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 9, 22, 27, 28, 102 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED