Swamp Thing · The Chameleons

149 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 6:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 113-126, 129 and 131, and 5 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
SWAMP THING · BARS 113-114
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 52, 60, 73, 90, 102 and 127.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 16 sections: 113 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-126.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
PART B
PART D
PART G
PART M
PART Q
PART S
PART P
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesVDGBC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Swamp Thing?

98 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 Swamp Thing hard to play on drums?

49 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 13 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 Swamp Thing?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 52, 60, 73, 90, 102 and 127.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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