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I Predict A Riot · Kaiser Chiefs

EXERCISE 20 OF 49
Run D2 · Part D (bars 55-65)
111 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFDHIQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Predict A Riot on drums

149 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-97, ride through bars 98-113 and hi-hat through bars 114-149.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 8 more places -- 18.8% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
I Predict A Riot -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 89, 97, 105, 128, 147 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- F, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-86 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Predict A Riot?

159 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 I Predict A Riot hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 I Predict A Riot?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 89, 97, 105, 128, 147 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED