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Raft Easily · Rooftops

Raft Easily · Rooftops
EXERCISE 10 OF 56
Groove A
32 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Raft Easily on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-29, ride through bars 30-54, silence through bars 55-61, hi-hat through bars 62-66, ride through bars 67-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-99, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x-x-x---|
SD |--x-----x----x--|
T2 |-x---x-----x----|
FT |------x-------xx|
BD |x--x---x--------|
Raft Easily -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- R -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 30-54 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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