Ring of Chain · Citizen

154 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-24, and 4 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
RING OF CHAIN · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 31, 41, 47 and 17 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 10 sections: 110 keep time, 24 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-120.

PART B
PART N
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGBXNS5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ring of Chain?

145 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 Ring of Chain hard to play on drums?

40 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Ring of Chain?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 31, 41, 47 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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