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(NO SOLOS) Ribbit Regime T1 · Borderline Broke

(NO SOLOS) Ribbit Regime T1 · Borderline Broke
EXERCISE 7 OF 48
Groove A -- Part A
50 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART H
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDHS8WA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play (NO SOLOS) Ribbit Regime T1 on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-39, snare through bars 40-42, hi-hat through bars 43-74, snare through bars 75-76, silence through bars 77-91 and hi-hat through bars 92-111, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-31 and 43-45, and 1 more place -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17                               18
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---o---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---o---x---o---o---|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-------x-x-|----x---x-x-x-------x-x---------|
(NO SOLOS) Ribbit Regime T1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 32, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 17 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 -- D, W -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-36 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-42 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is (NO SOLOS) Ribbit Regime T1?

130 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 (NO SOLOS) Ribbit Regime T1 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 (NO SOLOS) Ribbit Regime T1?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 32, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED