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Rat Torture · Distant

Rat Torture · Distant
EXERCISE 7 OF 43
Fill at bar 8 (a small one)
32 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
PART S
PART S8
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKS8DOAF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rat Torture on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
72/100

ride through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-20, silence through bars 21-22 and snare through bars 23-28, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-68 and 81-83 -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-------x---x---x-------|
Rat Torture -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 24 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- Z, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-68 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rat Torture?

128 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 Rat Torture hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Rat Torture?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 24 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED