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Operation Chipi Chipi Chapa Chapa · Zhyvchyk Square

EXERCISE 19 OF 45
Groove N
114 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Operation Chipi Chipi Chapa Chapa on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-35, snare through bars 36-43, hi-hat through bars 44-70 and snare through bars 71-77, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Operation Chipi Chipi Chapa Chapa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- G, J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-39 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 107-127 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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