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Chippin' In · Samurai

EXERCISE 8 OF 53
Groove D
38 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART E
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chippin' In on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-14, hi-hat through bars 15-30, snare through bars 31-34, toms through bars 35-38, snare through bars 39-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-67, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, O -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-54 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-76 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-76 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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