Riff Raff · AC/DC

226 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 6:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40 and 42, and 31 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 141 BPM
RIFF RAFF · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 49, 56, 57, 89, 100, 101 and 8 more.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

226 bars across 23 sections: 163 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 165-188.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
13 groovesGHLED+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Riff Raff?

141 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 Riff Raff hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 6:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Riff Raff?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 49, 56, 57, 89, 100, 101 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED
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