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Riff №1 · polo

Riff №1 · polo
EXERCISE 11 OF 33
Join Part H to Break 4 (bars 27-29)
68 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, BREAK 4
PART B
PART H
BREAK 4
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Riff №1 on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
43/100

toms through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-35, snare through bars 36-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-65, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    64
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxx|
Riff №1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- T, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-27 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-42 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 41-53 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-105 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 106-141 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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