Raft Easily · Rooftops

122 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 158 BPM, 3:11 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36, 38-39 and 50-52 -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
RAFT EASILY · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 11 sections: 67 keep time, 34 are fills, 3 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-119.

PART C
PART I
PART R
PART T
PART S6
CHORUS
PART AP
PART AW
OUTRO
10 groovesYCRAPAX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Raft Easily?

158 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Raft Easily hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Raft Easily?

9 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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