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Rapapara · Łydka Grubasa

Rapapara · Łydka Grubasa
EXERCISE 9 OF 46
Fill at bar 36
61 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rapapara on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-19, snare through bars 20-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-44 and kick and crashes through bars 45-52, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--x---x---xx--x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Rapapara -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 36-56 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 81-96 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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