Rapapara · Łydka Grubasa

125 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28, 37-44 and 69-76 -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
RAPAPARA · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 52, 68, 80, 92, 109 and 1 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 12 sections: 82 keep time, 7 are fills, 11 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-67.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDEPBS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rapapara?

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 Rapapara hard to play on drums?

58 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Rapapara?

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 52, 68, 80, 92, 109 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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