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Start Choppin' · Dinosaur Jr.

EXERCISE 6 OF 78
Fill at bar 67 (a small one)
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0 / 78 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART V
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART R
PART V
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJVAABS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Start Choppin' on drums

158 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 5:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, toms through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-33, toms through bars 34-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-49, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 32, and 15 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    144
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----|
Start Choppin' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 17, 19, 20, 21, 25, 34 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA, V -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-68 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Start Choppin'?

109 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Start Choppin' hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Start Choppin'?

20 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 17, 19, 20, 21, 25, 34 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED