Riot · Three Days Grace

104 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-16, and 6 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
RIOT · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 29, 45, 57 and 7 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 7 sections: 55 keep time, 13 are fills, 27 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-44.

CHORUS
PART P
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBGPSS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Riot?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Riot hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Riot?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 29, 45, 57 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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