Melting Chariots · Omar Rodríguez-López Quintet

116 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 21-25 and 35, and 9 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MELTING CHARIOTS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 19, 54, 55, 80, 81 and 1 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 10 sections: 96 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-53.

CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART Z
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBJUFP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Melting Chariots?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Melting Chariots hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Melting Chariots?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 19, 54, 55, 80, 81 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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