Raisins (Torn) · pAID

100 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-9, 44 and 46-48, and 4 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
RAISINS (TORN) · BARS 4-5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 12, 13, 21, 26, 27 and 31 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 10 sections: 46 keep time, 37 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

CHORUS
PART D
PART H
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesBDPHT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Raisins (Torn)?

142 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 Raisins (Torn) hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Raisins (Torn)?

9 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 12, 13, 21, 26, 27 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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