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Ravenous, Ravenous Rhinos · I Set My Friends On Fire

Ravenous, Ravenous Rhinos · I Set My Friends On Fire
EXERCISE 10 OF 34
Groove G
64 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCMAKS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ravenous, Ravenous Rhinos on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-21, silence through bars 22-29, snare through bars 30-61, hi-hat through bars 62-84 and snare through bars 85-93.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 18, and 10 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------X-------|
BD |X-X---X---X---X-|
Ravenous, Ravenous Rhinos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-38 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 1-41 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-57 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-83 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ravenous, Ravenous Rhinos?

148 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 Ravenous, Ravenous Rhinos hard to play on drums?

46 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 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 Ravenous, Ravenous Rhinos?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED