Chopped gadah riffs · Tom Koot

135 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 2 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
CHOPPED GADAH RIFFS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 20, 81, 86 and 91.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 15 sections: 66 keep time, 5 are fills, 9 are stops and 73 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-118.

PART A
PART C
PART H
BREAK 3
BREAK 5
CHORUS
PART U
OUTRO
BREAK 9
14 groovesS6S15MAC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chopped gadah riffs?

180 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 Chopped gadah riffs hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Chopped gadah riffs?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 20, 81, 86 and 91.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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