Riff №1 · polo

143 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-67, 70-73 and 76-79, and 3 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
RIFF №1 · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 63.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 27 sections: 99 keep time, 1 is a fill, 11 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-59.

PART B
PART P
CHORUS
PART U
PART U
PART U
PART U
18 groovesTUHBP+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Riff №1?

240 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 Riff №1 hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Riff №1?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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