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Cole Riff · Silvius

Cole Riff · Silvius
EXERCISE 16 OF 42
Fill at bar 28, 53 and 89 (a small one)
74 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
BREAK 5
10 groovesEAAKS14P+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cole Riff on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 7:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
7:18
DIFFICULTY
71/100

ride through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-33 and ride through bars 34-37, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 21-23 and 38-40, and 3 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 26, 28, 30, 49, 51 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E, AA -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cole Riff?

95 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 Cole Riff hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 7:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Cole Riff?

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 26, 28, 30, 49, 51 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED