Chippin' In · Samurai

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-14 and 84-86 -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 87 BPM
CHIPPIN' IN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 30, 36, 37, 38, 47, 51 and 17 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 11 sections: 60 keep time, 23 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-14.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIRBOE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chippin' In?

87 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Chippin' In hard to play on drums?

52 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Chippin' In?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 30, 36, 37, 38, 47, 51 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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