Family System · Chevelle

92 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 3:57 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 45 and 47, and 2 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
FAMILY SYSTEM · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 11, 22, 24, 26, 30 and 5 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 8 sections: 34 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-55.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS8GMES1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Family System?

140 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Family System 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 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 Family System?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 11, 22, 24, 26, 30 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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