Operation Chipi Chipi Chapa Chapa · Zhyvchyk Square

161 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-14, 16-19 and 21-24, and 10 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
OPERATION CHIPI CHIPI CHAPA CHAPA · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 10, 35, 39 and 14 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 12 sections: 125 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-34.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART D
PART J
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesGJDUY+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Operation Chipi Chipi Chapa Chapa?

140 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 Operation Chipi Chipi Chapa Chapa hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Operation Chipi Chipi Chapa Chapa?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 10, 35, 39 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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