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Someone's Standing On My Chest · Atreyu

EXERCISE 7 OF 69
Groove E (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 69 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, CHORUS
PART S2
CHORUS
PART O
PART Q
PART O
PART Y
PART AC
PART AD
PART AE
OUTRO
13 groovesJAGOS2Y+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Someone's Standing On My Chest on drums

157 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 2-70, snare through bars 71-78, hi-hat through bars 79-86, ride through bars 87-91, silence through bars 92-93 and toms through bars 94-106, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 28-30 and 33-35, and 1 more place -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxx-xx-xxx----|
Someone's Standing On My Chest -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG, O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-63 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-91 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Someone's Standing On My Chest?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Someone's Standing On My Chest hard to play on drums?

64 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Someone's Standing On My Chest?

14 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED