Chocolate and Mint · Duster

68 bars, 4:32, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15 and 26-40 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 60 BPM
CHOCOLATE AND MINT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 41, 44, 47, 48, 50 and 11 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 5 sections: 38 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART S2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAHDS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chocolate and Mint?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Chocolate and Mint hard to play on drums?

58 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Chocolate and Mint?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 41, 44, 47, 48, 50 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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