Rato ra Chandra Surya · Nepathya

125 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25, 31-32 and 35, and 13 more places -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
RATO RA CHANDRA SURYA · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 8, 33, 34, 50, 68 and 11 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 68-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 84-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 9 sections: 85 keep time, 17 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-123.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO 2
5 groovesELDHRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rato ra Chandra Surya?

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 Rato ra Chandra Surya hard to play on drums?

51 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Rato ra Chandra Surya?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 8, 33, 34, 50, 68 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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