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From the Chest Down · Superheaven

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove C -- Part C
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
6 groovesABS1S5C+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play From the Chest Down on drums

189 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
5:55
DIFFICULTY
30/100

silence through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-19, snare through bars 20-33, toms through bars 34-37, ride through bars 38-51 and snare through bars 52-65, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-33, 37 and 52-65, and 5 more places -- 61.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
From the Chest Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 156, 172 and 187.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 87-188 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is From the Chest Down?

128 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 From the Chest Down hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 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 From the Chest Down?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 156, 172 and 187.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED