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Reviver · My First Story

Reviver · My First Story
EXERCISE 1 OF 73
Groove L -- Outro
0 / 237 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT
PART I
PART O
PART M
CHORUS
PART AB
PART O
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AM
PART AU
PART S
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
14 groovesWABOFM+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 10
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reviver on drums

237 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 3-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, ride through bars 36-39, hi-hat through bars 40-41, snare through bars 42-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-59, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 32, and 36 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|
Reviver -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 35, 39, 99, 103, 181, 182 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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, M -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-207 -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Reviver?

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

Is Reviver hard to play on drums?

61 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

237 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Reviver?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 35, 39, 99, 103, 181, 182 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 237 BARS ANALYSED