The Red · Chevelle

83 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 70 BPM, 3:33 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 21-23 and 33-39, and 2 more places -- 40.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
THE RED · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 20, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 4 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 10 sections: 59 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Red?

70 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Red hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 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 Red?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 20, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 4 more.

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