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Raped By Elephants · Torsofuck

Raped By Elephants · Torsofuck
EXERCISE 17 OF 35
Part I into Part J with the record (bars 41-48)
83 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART J
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART J
PART S6
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGIRJC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Raped By Elephants on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-12, silence through bars 13-19 and toms through bars 20-36, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-44 and 110-119 -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |------------------------x-------|
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x---------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Raped By Elephants -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 80, 85, 90 and 95.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- I, H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-37 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-63 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 62-76 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-109 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Raped By Elephants?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Raped By Elephants hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Raped By Elephants?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 80, 85, 90 and 95.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED