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Family System · Chevelle

EXERCISE 16 OF 34
Join Part E to Chorus (bars 19-21)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Family System on drums

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.

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
140 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-26, ride through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-62 and silence through bars 63-92.

The beat

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.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-x---------|
BD |x-----x---x-------x---x-|
Family System -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- M, G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-27 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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