ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gods Of Rapture on drums

122 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 4:41 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 160 BPM
TIME: 8/4
BARS: 122
LENGTH: 4:41
DIFFICULTY: 51/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-14, toms through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, ride through bars 27-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-43, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-26 -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19                                                                                               20
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........7...........8........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........7...........8...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------x-----------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x-----------x--x--x--x--x-----------------x-----------x--x--x--x--------------x--x--|x--x--x-----------x-----------x-----x--x--x--x--x-----------x--x--x--x--x-----x-----------x-----|

Gods Of Rapture -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 15, 16, 17 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- U, AG -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 25-42 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through the Break and Part AB -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.

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Questions

What BPM is Gods Of Rapture?

160 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Gods Of Rapture hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Gods Of Rapture?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 15, 16, 17 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED