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Closer · Chainsmokers

Closer · Chainsmokers
EXERCISE 6 OF 10
Run B2 · Chorus 2 (bars 27-36)
49 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
CHORUS 4
BREAK 3
OUTRO
6 groovesBAS10S4S8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Closer on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
23/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-20, silence through bars 21-26, snare through bars 27-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-52 and silence through bars 53-58, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 29-36 and 45-52, and 2 more places -- 64.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-------------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Closer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Closer?

95 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 Closer hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED