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Playing with the Razor · Raven

EXERCISE 5 OF 56
Groove I -- Part I
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Playing with the Razor on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, toms through bars 10-18, hi-hat through bars 19-27, snare through bars 28-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-34, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--xx--xx--|
Playing with the Razor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 3-14 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-28 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-52 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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