Playing with the Razor · Raven

107 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 20, and 7 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
PLAYING WITH THE RAZOR · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 16, 17 and 48 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 14 sections: 33 keep time, 54 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-15.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART AC
CHORUS 4
10 groovesDACPIX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Playing with the Razor?

128 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 Playing with the Razor hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:15 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, 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 Playing with the Razor?

11 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 16, 17 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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