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Ravenwing · Altaria

EXERCISE 12 OF 51
Run E1 · Chorus (bars 1-14)
53 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
PART M
PART Y
OUTRO
7 groovesEGYMJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ravenwing on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-82, ride through bars 83-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 33 and 37, and 12 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Ravenwing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 22, 30, 34 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- M, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-61 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-71 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-57 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ravenwing?

120 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 Ravenwing hard to play on drums?

57 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?

113 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Ravenwing?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 22, 30, 34 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED