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The Chauffeur · Duran Duran

EXERCISE 8 OF 34
Groove B
82 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEMCJS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Chauffeur on drums

171 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 82 BPM, 4:10 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, snare through bars 25-42, hi-hat through bars 43-169 and silence through bars 170-171.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 11 and 13, and 24 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54
    1.......2.......
CC |x---x-----x-----|
HH |----------o-----|
SD |x-x-----x-r-x---|
BD |x---x-----------|
The Chauffeur -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 10, 22, 65, 81, 116 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-30 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 5-89 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-53 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-66 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Chauffeur?

82 BPM, in 2/4, 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 Chauffeur hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Chauffeur?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 10, 22, 65, 81, 116 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED