Rift · Good Kid

127 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 2:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-50, 71-76 and 79-84, and 1 more place -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 198 BPM
RIFT · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 18, 67, 68, 86, 102 and 3 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 11 sections: 86 keep time, 9 are fills, 13 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-36.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART F
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIQEKF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rift?

198 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 Rift hard to play on drums?

57 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Rift?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 18, 67, 68, 86, 102 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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