Rio · Duran Duran

192 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 9 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
RIO · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 36, 38, 46, 78, 80 and 6 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 11 sections: 161 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-77.

VERSE
PART G
VERSE 2
PART G
PART K
VERSE 3
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDNGKS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rio?

140 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 Rio hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Rio?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 36, 38, 46, 78, 80 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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