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Riot · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 24 OF 36
Join Part N to Part P (bars 66-68)
84 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART P
CHORUS
PART N
PART P
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBGPSS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Riot on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-53, snare through bars 54-63, hi-hat through bars 64-67 and ride through bars 68-75, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x--x----x-x----------x--|
Riot -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-88 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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