Ratchet · Bloc Party

112 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23 and 41-55 -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
RATCHET · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 56, 64, 72, 96, 104 and 1 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 112
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 11 sections: 87 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-55.

PART A
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART A
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART L
VERSE
OUTRO
8 groovesFEMAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ratchet?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Ratchet hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ratchet?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 56, 64, 72, 96, 104 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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