Prayer Of The Refugee · Rise Against

77 bars, 3:57, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

PunkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 32-34, and 7 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
PRAYER OF THE REFUGEE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 15, 26, 35, 39, 52, 64 and 1 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 10 sections: 54 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-51.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART O
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIECYO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prayer Of The Refugee?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Prayer Of The Refugee hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Prayer Of The Refugee?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 15, 26, 35, 39, 52, 64 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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