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Chronos · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 21 OF 76
Run G2 · Part G (bars 71-79)
78 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEGS1AOAG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chronos on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-20, ride through bars 21-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, ride through bars 35-36 and snare through bars 37-38, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31, and 13 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o---------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------x-----------------------|
Chronos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 42, 43, 44, 46, 78, 82 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chronos?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Chronos hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 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 Chronos?

20 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 42, 43, 44, 46, 78, 82 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED