Riffatorium · bram

81 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
1:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 68-83 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
RIFFATORIUM · BARS 68-69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 19 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 20-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 13 sections: 36 keep time, 25 are fills, 14 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-38.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART P
PART Q
PART W
PART S9
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK 5
13 groovesAHBGS13S3+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Riffatorium?

165 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 Riffatorium hard to play on drums?

61 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 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 Riffatorium?

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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