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Ride The Sky · Helloween

EXERCISE 18 OF 27
Groove L
208 / 227 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFKAS3S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ride The Sky on drums

227 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 5:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
80/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-31, toms through bars 32-33, snare through bars 34-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-62, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 8 more places -- 65.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Ride The Sky -- 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 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 70 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-17 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-141 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ride The Sky?

156 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 Ride The Sky hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sky?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 70 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED