Rift · Quarters of Change

193 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65, 67 and 69, and 23 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
RIFT · BAR 67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 49 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 20 sections: 81 keep time, 55 are fills, 23 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-126.

PART D
PART S
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AH
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
15 groovesWDSVS20+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rift?

152 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 Rift hard to play on drums?

46 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

16 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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