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Chucky Vs. The Giant Tortoise · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove K -- Outro
0 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesS5KBGS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chucky Vs. The Giant Tortoise on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-19, silence through bars 20-23 and snare through bars 24-30, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    24
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......7.......8.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-------x-x-x-------x-x-x-------x-x-x---x-----x-x-x---x-x-x-|
Chucky Vs. The Giant Tortoise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-43 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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