A standard riff till plattan · Leon Barthold

452 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 11:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
452
LENGTH
11:08
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 276-277, 280-281 and 284-285, and 5 more places -- 6.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
A STANDARD RIFF TILL PLATTAN · BAR 276
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 65, 67, 68, 69, 76, 78 and 39 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 67-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

452 bars across 32 sections: 146 keep time, 45 are fills, 41 are stops and 198 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-95.

PART S4
PART S9
CHORUS
PART BJ
28 groovesS16S9S4BJAN+23Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A standard riff till plattan?

164 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 A standard riff till plattan hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

452 bars, about 11:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 102 exercises over 33 sittings, about 27 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 A standard riff till plattan?

24 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 65, 67, 68, 69, 76, 78 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 452 BARS ANALYSED
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