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Ragazze · Lucio Battisti

EXERCISE 25 OF 26
Fill at bar 60
60 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS1FIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ragazze on drums

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-31, toms through bars 32-33, hi-hat through bars 34-47, toms through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-60.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 20-22, and 5 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    16
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o-------o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-x-----x---x---x-|
Ragazze -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 29 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-35 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Ragazze?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Ragazze hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Ragazze?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 29 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED