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Rapid Spin · AcId

EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove D -- Part D (a two-bar phrase)
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INTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rapid Spin on drums

156 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-59, silence through bars 60-81, kick and crashes through bars 82-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-105, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 4 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9                        10
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---o-------|
SD |------------x-------x---|------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x---------------|x-------x-x-----x-------|
Rapid Spin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 97, 105, 127 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rapid Spin?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rapid Spin hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

156 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Rapid Spin?

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 97, 105, 127 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED