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Rastaman Dita · Molotov

EXERCISE 5 OF 20
Groove D -- Part D
127 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rastaman Dita on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-72, snare through bars 73-80 and ride through bars 81-121, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 15-28 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 44-125 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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