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Le Risque · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

EXERCISE 23 OF 32
Groove L
118 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDOBS8A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Le Risque on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-41, snare through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-79, snare through bars 80-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-95, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 28, and 15 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--------x--x--------|
Le Risque -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 17, 27, 31, 35, 39 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D, F (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-81 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-94 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 94-134 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Le Risque?

150 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 Le Risque hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Le Risque?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 17, 27, 31, 35, 39 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED