Original Composition by RichaadEB · "YEAR OF THE HORSE"

227 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-11, 28 and 35-37, and 4 more places -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
ORIGINAL COMPOSITION BY RICHAADEB · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 1, 4, 6, 12, 31, 32 and 85 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 27 sections: 85 keep time, 91 are fills, 24 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-22.

PART F
PART Y
PART K
CHORUS 4
12 groovesWFKJN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Original Composition by RichaadEB?

170 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 Original Composition by RichaadEB hard to play on drums?

63 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 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 21 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Original Composition by RichaadEB?

28 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 1, 4, 6, 12, 31, 32 and 85 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
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