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TAPDAT · Chiodos

EXERCISE 17 OF 89
Fill at bar 24 (a small one)
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0 / 89 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART O
PART I
PART O
CHORUS
PART AJ
PART AN
PART AQ
PART BD
PART AG
PART S18
PART BX
22 groovesYBXIAJBD+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 5
JOIN · 17
LINK · 4
SECTION · 17
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play TAPDAT on drums

167 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-10, hi-hat through bars 11-15, ride through bars 16-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28 and toms through bars 29-45, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-48, 103 and 105, and 3 more places -- 7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|
TAPDAT -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 5, 24, 36, 37, 41 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- AE, BX -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part T and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is TAPDAT?

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

Is TAPDAT hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in TAPDAT?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 5, 24, 36, 37, 41 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED