R.I.P. · Motionless in white

132 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 15 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
R.I.P. · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 70, 100, 102, 104, 107, 108 and 3 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 107-108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 131-132 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 12 sections: 89 keep time, 9 are fills, 6 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-39.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDES1BF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is R.I.P.?

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

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in R.I.P.?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 70, 100, 102, 104, 107, 108 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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