riffs · Congenital Ligature

144 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50, 52 and 54, and 10 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
RIFFS · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 32, 34, 38, 42, 46 and 4 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 14 sections: 72 keep time, 10 are fills, 24 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-88.

PART A
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
BREAK 3
PART B
BREAK 4
12 groovesLBCS9H+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is riffs?

240 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is riffs hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 riffs?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 32, 34, 38, 42, 46 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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