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Chopped gadah riffs · Tom Koot

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove A -- Part A
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chopped gadah riffs on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, silence through bars 35-76, ride through bars 77-96 and silence through bars 97-101, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, M -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-28 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-65 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-103 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Break 7 and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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