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Reaper · Rotting Out

Reaper · Rotting Out
EXERCISE 17 OF 26
Fill at bar 29 and 33 (a small one)
41 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesELS2S1S6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reaper on drums

69 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:40
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-11, silence through bars 12-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-41 and silence through bars 42-48, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 53-59 and 61-68 -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------------------------------|
HH |------------------------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------------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 13 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 16, 27, 29 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- L -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-53 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Reaper?

165 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 Reaper hard to play on drums?

58 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 1:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Reaper?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 16, 27, 29 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED