Chopped In Half · Obituary

160 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-64, 69-82 and 103-116, and 2 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 136 BPM
CHOPPED IN HALF · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 5, 17, 19, 25, 30 and 23 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 12 sections: 109 keep time, 30 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-116.

PART D
PART E
PART H
PART K
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesOZDEH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chopped In Half?

136 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 Chopped In Half hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Chopped In Half?

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 3, 5, 17, 19, 25, 30 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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