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Riot · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 19 OF 39
Part F into Part I with the record (bars 24-31)
100 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART I
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART I
PART O
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCIFOA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Riot on drums

132 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-19, hi-hat through bars 20-36 and snare through bars 37-55, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 29, and 14 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Riot -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 19, 55, 92, 93, 101, 129 and 3 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 -- C, O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-9 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-44 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Riot?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Riot hard to play on drums?

56 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Riot?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 19, 55, 92, 93, 101, 129 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED