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Rational Shortcut · Monster Hunter 4 Band

Rational Shortcut · Monster Hunter 4 Band
EXERCISE 18 OF 29
Join Part I to Chorus 2 (bars 57-59)
150 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS 2
PART B
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesHFBIS11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rational Shortcut on drums

165 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 6:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
6:17
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-54, ride through bars 55-58, hi-hat through bars 59-95, ride through bars 96-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-165.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-54, 59-62 and 88-95, and 8 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    48
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Rational Shortcut -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 14, 71, 113, 133, 137 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- H, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-64 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 59-165 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rational Shortcut?

105 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 Rational Shortcut hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 6:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Rational Shortcut?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 14, 71, 113, 133, 137 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED