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Ring of Chain · Citizen

EXERCISE 15 OF 52
Fill at bar 31, 129 and 153 (a small one)
103 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART N
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGBXNS5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ring of Chain on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
40/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-24, hi-hat through bars 25-31, toms through bars 32-50, silence through bars 51-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-59, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-----xx|
BD |x-----x-------x-|----------------|
Ring of Chain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part N -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-58 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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