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Closure · Chevelle

EXERCISE 13 OF 28
Groove M -- Part M
77 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Closure on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-42, hi-hat through bars 43-48 and ride through bars 49-95, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9            10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|----------x-|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |------x-----|------x-----|
BD |x----x------|x----x----x-|
Closure -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-47 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 73-100 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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