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R.I.P. · 870621345

EXERCISE 6 OF 54
Groove D -- Part D
28 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS, OUTRO
PART D
PART I
PART O
PART R
PART T
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesVIDABO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play R.I.P. on drums

101 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-64, snare through bars 65-82 and ride through bars 83-90, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65-67, 69-71 and 74-76, and 1 more place -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65               66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x---xx----x-x-|x-x-x-xx--x-x---|
R.I.P. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 10, 14, 20, 22, 24, 26 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- V -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, T -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-60 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is R.I.P.?

200 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 R.I.P. hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 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 R.I.P.?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 10, 14, 20, 22, 24, 26 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED