SOAD - Chop Suey! In Drop D · System of a Down

108 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-41, 55-69 and 84-92 -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 127 BPM
SOAD - CHOP SUEY! IN DROP D · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 29, 33, 50, 54 and 71.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 13 sections: 78 keep time, 6 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-106.

PART S1
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJHES1C+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SOAD - Chop Suey! In Drop D?

127 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 SOAD - Chop Suey! In Drop D hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 SOAD - Chop Suey! In Drop D?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 29, 33, 50, 54 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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