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Riffmania · Apace

EXERCISE 5 OF 46
Groove A -- Part A
27 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Riffmania on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-19, toms through bars 20-26, snare through bars 27-34, silence through bars 35-36 and snare through bars 37-47, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----x-----|
SD |---x-----x--|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Riffmania -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-30 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Break 2 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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