chugga chugga · Me

190 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 46-48, and 5 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 179 BPM
CHUGGA CHUGGA · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 33 more.

LOOP · 179 BPM
BARS 7-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 16 sections: 122 keep time, 39 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-171.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART AK
CHORUS 4
PART P
PART BB
PART E
OUTRO
11 groovesRBKAEP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is chugga chugga?

179 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 chugga chugga hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 29 sittings, about 24 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 chugga chugga?

11 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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