Chunga · My Gift To You

107 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 28-30 and 33, and 5 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 129 BPM
CHUNGA · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 14, 15 and 20 more.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 13 sections: 62 keep time, 26 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-40.

PART I
PART N
PART R
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART S9
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
9 groovesVRNIAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chunga?

129 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Chunga hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 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 Chunga?

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 14, 15 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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