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Ride The Lightning · Warren Zeiders

Ride The Lightning · Warren Zeiders
EXERCISE 32 OF 32
Play the whole song with the record
62 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 63 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBEDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ride The Lightning on drums

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, snare through bars 14-15, hi-hat through bars 16-48, toms through bars 49-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-60, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 16-22 and 24-25, and 5 more places -- 49.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Ride The Lightning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 13, 14, 23, 33, 34 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-36 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Ride The Lightning?

76 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Ride The Lightning hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 Ride The Lightning?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 13, 14, 23, 33, 34 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED