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Ragnarok · Periphery

EXERCISE 22 OF 37
Run AQ1 · Part AQ (bars 60-73)
105 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AQ
CHORUS
PART AQ
PART S3
PART BA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCAPAQBAS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ragnarok on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-8, toms through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-12, toms through bars 13-14 and snare through bars 15-17, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 58, 102-116 and 118-124 -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    102              103
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x-x-|--x---x---x---x-|
Ragnarok -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 81 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- AP, BA -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 53 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part AQ -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-74 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part AQ and Part S3 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part S3 and Part BA -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ragnarok?

125 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 Ragnarok hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ragnarok?

9 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 81 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED