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EXERCISE 7 OF 81
15-bar fill at bar 7
68 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play chugga chugga on drums

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.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
84/100

toms through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-85, snare through bars 86-96, ride through bars 97-98, toms through bars 99-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-149, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- R -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BK -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-183 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 23-118 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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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