Riffmania · Apace

100 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-59, 61-64 and 69-71, and 2 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
RIFFMANIA · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 16, 38, 42, 65, 66 and 2 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 19 sections: 72 keep time, 8 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
PART D
PART A
PART F
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesPAFDG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Riffmania?

115 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 Riffmania hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Riffmania?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 16, 38, 42, 65, 66 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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