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RDM · Kaptan Kadavra

RDM · Kaptan Kadavra
EXERCISE 22 OF 94
Groove R (a two-bar phrase)
115 / 247 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART T
PART E
PART N
PART T
CHORUS
PART E
PART N
PART T
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AX
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAMENAYT+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play RDM on drums

247 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 5:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-9, hi-hat through bars 10-24, toms through bars 25-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-34, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-87, 90-95 and 141-146, and 3 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    82
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
RDM -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 26 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- AM, AY -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-89 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is RDM?

173 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is RDM hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 24 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 RDM?

16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 26 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED