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Reaper · Frankie And the Witch Fingers

Reaper · Frankie And the Witch Fingers
EXERCISE 15 OF 31
3-bar fill at bar 28
55 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE 2
VERSE
PART F
VERSE 2
CHORUS
VERSE 3
OUTRO
4 groovesDKFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reaper on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 3-68.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxo-xxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |--------------xx|
BD |x------x-xx-----|
HF |--------x-------|
Reaper -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse 2 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Verse 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse 2 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 37-61 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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