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Chlorine · Double Virgo

Chlorine · Double Virgo
EXERCISE 7 OF 17
Join Part A to Break (bars 21-23)
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0 / 17 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, BREAK
PART C
PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
6 groovesDACS3S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chlorine on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
46/100

ride through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-9, ride through bars 10-22, silence through bars 23-27, ride through bars 28-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-36, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 27 and 31-38, and 3 more places -- 48.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-------x---x-|
Chlorine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 58, 60 and 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- D, A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-55 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Chlorine?

88 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 Chlorine hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Chlorine?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 58, 60 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED