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RIITIIR · Enslaved

RIITIIR · Enslaved
EXERCISE 15 OF 78
Fill at bar 8
93 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART F
PART O
PART V
PART Y
PART V
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAHVAYO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play RIITIIR on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-23, toms through bars 24-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-80, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 116-148 and 150-151 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    117
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
RIITIIR -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 18, 20 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- AH -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, Y -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-65 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is RIITIIR?

145 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 RIITIIR hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 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 RIITIIR?

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 18, 20 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED