Ray Charles · Dionísio Afoito Num Quarto

68 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 60 BPM, 3:55 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 47 and 52-56, and 1 more place -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 60 BPM
RAY CHARLES · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 12, 22, 26, 30, 48 and 2 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 10 sections: 42 keep time, 8 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-21.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART H
PART M
PART L
CHORUS
PART T
OUTRO
9 groovesPHDMT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ray Charles?

60 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Ray Charles hard to play on drums?

48 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Ray Charles?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 12, 22, 26, 30, 48 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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