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Rapture · Ok Goodnight

Rapture · Ok Goodnight
EXERCISE 28 OF 62
Fill at bar 66 (a small one)
115 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART J
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART AC
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBJS9TW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rapture on drums

195 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
80/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-16, toms through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-39, toms through bars 40-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-44, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 5 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 18, 19 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-60 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-91 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rapture?

172 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 Rapture hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Rapture?

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 18, 19 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED