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Rio · Duran Duran

EXERCISE 10 OF 40
Join Part B to Verse (bars 11-13)
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0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, VERSE
PART B
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rio on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-192.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Verse and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Verse 2 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

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