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Godless Frequency · Riptor

EXERCISE 10 OF 54
Fill at bar 98 (a small one)
81 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACUMXFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Godless Frequency on drums

126 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
83/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, toms through bars 24-26, hi-hat through bars 27-90, kick and crashes through bars 91-96, hi-hat through bars 97-115 and snare through bars 116-117, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 27-33 and 37-41, and 1 more place -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Godless Frequency -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 25, 26 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-99 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-67 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-83 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Godless Frequency?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Godless Frequency hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Godless Frequency?

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 25, 26 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED