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Riffatorium · bram

EXERCISE 12 OF 41
Groove D (a two-bar phrase)
32 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Riffatorium on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
1:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100

ride through bars 1-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-39, snare through bars 40-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-81.

The beat

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.

    68               69
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----------------|--------------x-|
HH |--------o-------|o-------o-------|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-x-|----------------|
Riffatorium -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- AH, B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-26 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part S3 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-48 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part S9 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part S9 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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