Rastaman Dita · Molotov

160 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 25-40 and 45-72, and 3 more places -- 76.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 180 BPM
RASTAMAN DITA · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 44, 100, 124 and 160.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 160
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 8 sections: 142 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-159.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rastaman Dita?

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

Is Rastaman Dita hard to play on drums?

52 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Rastaman Dita?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 44, 100, 124 and 160.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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