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Chunga · My Gift To You

Chunga · My Gift To You
EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove R -- Part R
0 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chunga on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-23, hi-hat through bars 24-41 and snare through bars 42-49, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----xX|
BD |x-x---x---------|
Chunga -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part I and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-65 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-82 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-99 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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