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Riders Of The Apocalypse · 1349

EXERCISE 4 OF 58
Groove E -- Chorus
82 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART N
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesECMNR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Riders Of The Apocalypse on drums

239 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-17, ride through bars 18-32, snare through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-97 and snare through bars 98-114, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-16, 34-47 and 208-221 -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |---x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x--|
Riders Of The Apocalypse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 29, 52, 60, 65, 109 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- C, M -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-67 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-83 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Riders Of The Apocalypse?

210 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 Riders Of The Apocalypse hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 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 Riders Of The Apocalypse?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 29, 52, 60, 65, 109 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED