Chucky Vs. The Giant Tortoise · Dance Gavin Dance

85 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 3:41 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26 and 28-30 -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
CHUCKY VS. THE GIANT TORTOISE · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18 and 9 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 10-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 5 sections: 14 keep time, 15 are fills, 10 are stops and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-5.

PART B
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesS5KBGS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chucky Vs. The Giant Tortoise?

160 BPM, in 8/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Chucky Vs. The Giant Tortoise hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Chucky Vs. The Giant Tortoise?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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