riby · semaj

80 bars at 255 BPM -- fast, and 1:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
255 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
1:15
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-19, 22-23 and 26, and 1 more place -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 255 BPM
RIBY · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 24 more.

LOOP · 255 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 255 BPM
BARS 9-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 255 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 255 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 7 sections: 14 keep time, 30 are fills, 28 are stops and 5 are silent.

PART C
CHORUS
PART A
PART AB
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKCAAGAB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is riby?

255 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 riby hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 1:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 riby?

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 24 more.

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