Closure · Chevelle

106 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 77 BPM, 4:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 19-33 and 35-42, and 5 more places -- 61.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 77 BPM
CLOSURE · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 34, 46, 64, 68, 70 and 6 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 70-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 10 sections: 76 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-33.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART M
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBEOS1M+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Closure?

77 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Closure hard to play on drums?

47 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Closure?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 34, 46, 64, 68, 70 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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