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Riff Raff · AC/DC

EXERCISE 24 OF 55
Fill at bar 89 and 191 (a small one)
171 / 226 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART H
PART L
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
PART L
13 groovesGHLED+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Riff Raff on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-13, toms through bars 14-27, hi-hat through bars 28-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-159 and snare through bars 160-163, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Riff Raff -- 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 49, 56, 57, 89, 100, 101 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- G, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-47 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 68-101 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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