ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Raise the Stakes on drums

248 bars at 206 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 206 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 248
LENGTH: 4:49
DIFFICULTY: 71/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-91, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74-76, 78-80 and 82-84, and 6 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Raise  the  Stakes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 28, 29 and 68 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AP, AK -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 1-124 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
Through Part C and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
and 16 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Raise the Stakes?

206 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Raise the Stakes hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

248 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Raise the Stakes?

23 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 28, 29 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 248 BARS ANALYSED