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Rift · Good Kid

EXERCISE 17 OF 44
Groove G
71 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rift on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-17, snare through bars 18-36, hi-hat through bars 37-66, ride through bars 67-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-78, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-------x---x-|
Rift -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- I, Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-61 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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