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Chopped In Half · Obituary

EXERCISE 7 OF 66
Join Part D to Part E (bars 8-10)
80 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART E
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 11
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chopped In Half on drums

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.

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

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

toms through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-26, ride through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-64, ride through bars 65-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-116, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Chopped In Half -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 17-135 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-46 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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