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Rifle (more accurate) xD · Lagwagon

EXERCISE 12 OF 51
Join Part A to Part C (bars 23-25)
74 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART C
PART A
PART C
PART D
PART D
PART D
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHDAJC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rifle (more accurate) xD on drums

125 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
69/100

ride through bars 1-23, hi-hat through bars 24-106, snare through bars 107-117 and hi-hat through bars 118-125.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 44 and 46, and 5 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--xx--xx--|
Rifle (more accurate) xD -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 36, 48, 52, 68, 76 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-36 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-125 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rifle (more accurate) xD?

185 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 Rifle (more accurate) xD hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Rifle (more accurate) xD?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 36, 48, 52, 68, 76 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED