JP riff · JP

18 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 0:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
18
LENGTH
0:29
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
JP RIFF · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 14, 15 and 16.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

19 bars across 5 sections: 7 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent.

PART S1
PART A
BREAK
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesBS1AS3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is JP riff?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 JP riff hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

18 bars, about 0:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 JP riff?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 14, 15 and 16.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 18 BARS ANALYSED
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