Reaper · Frankie And the Witch Fingers

68 bars, 3:45, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-9 and 13-14, and 6 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
REAPER · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 22, 28, 29, 30, 32, 34 and 8 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 7 sections: 44 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-55.

VERSE
PART F
VERSE 2
CHORUS
VERSE 3
OUTRO
4 groovesDKFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reaper?

72 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Reaper hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Reaper?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 22, 28, 29, 30, 32, 34 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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