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The Chain (Correct Ver.) · Fleetwood Mac

EXERCISE 25 OF 78
Run A2 · Chorus 2 (bars 29-53)
30 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART S11
PART AL
PART AV
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAAVALYS11+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Chain (Correct Ver.) on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 7:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
7:21
DIFFICULTY
65/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, silence through bars 25-28, ride through bars 29-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-46, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 106 and 117-119 -- 3.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    117
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----|
The Chain (Correct Ver.) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 20, 28, 42, 46, 48, 52 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- AV -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Break 2 and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-65 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part V and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Chain (Correct Ver.)?

76 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 The Chain (Correct Ver.) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 7:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 The Chain (Correct Ver.)?

22 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 20, 28, 42, 46, 48, 52 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED