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Rift · Quarters of Change

Rift · Quarters of Change
EXERCISE 22 OF 77
Run D1 · Part D (bars 9-32)
100 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rift on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-22, toms through bars 23-30, snare through bars 31-33, silence through bars 34-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-64, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    67
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Rift -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- V, W -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part S3 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-41 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part S and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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