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Melting Chariots · Omar Rodríguez-López Quintet

Melting Chariots · Omar Rodríguez-López Quintet
EXERCISE 17 OF 40
Join Part J to Part P (bars 55-57)
75 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART P
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Melting Chariots on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, snare through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, ride through bars 36-55, kick and crashes through bars 56-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-83, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-----x---------x-------x-------|
SD |------------x-----------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------------x-----------|
Melting Chariots -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-69 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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