Covered In Chrome ver. 2 · Violent Soho

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 31-33 and 49-51 -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
COVERED IN CHROME VER. 2 · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 38, 52, 56, 58, 62 and 3 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 62-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 11 sections: 27 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-21.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDS1FSM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Covered In Chrome ver. 2?

78 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 Covered In Chrome ver. 2 hard to play on drums?

58 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Covered In Chrome ver. 2?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 38, 52, 56, 58, 62 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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