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Chosen Ones · Megadeth

EXERCISE 24 OF 60
Groove M -- Part M
73 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, CHORUS
PART B
PART B
PART F
PART A
PART M
CHORUS
PART R
PART U
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesNBAFT+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chosen Ones on drums

132 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30, ride through bars 31-35 and toms through bars 36-37, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57, 61-64 and 66-68, and 2 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    63
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-x--x--x-|
Chosen Ones -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 20, 21, 22, 30, 34 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- N, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-38 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-58 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chosen Ones?

215 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 Chosen Ones hard to play on drums?

63 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 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 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, 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 Chosen Ones?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 20, 21, 22, 30, 34 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED