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R.I.P. · Motionless in white

EXERCISE 16 OF 31
Run D1 · Chorus (bars 66-72)
103 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play R.I.P. on drums

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

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-30, snare through bars 31-56, silence through bars 57-58, hi-hat through bars 59-73 and snare through bars 74-132.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---------|
R.I.P. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, B, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 21-57 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 59-100 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 66-94 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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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