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Chump · Green Day

EXERCISE 27 OF 48
Groove R -- Part R
86 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART R
PART B
PART G
PART G
PART K
PART B
CHORUS
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesSGBKW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chump on drums

122 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-21, ride through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-49, ride through bars 50-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-65, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67-80, 83-88 and 91-92 -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    67
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T1 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|
FT |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Chump -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 21, 29, 33, 41, 49 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- S, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-30 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-42 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-57 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-98 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chump?

174 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 Chump hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Chump?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 21, 29, 33, 41, 49 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED