Rip And Tear · Mick Gordon

232 bars at 216 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 200-202, 204-206 and 209-211, and 5 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 216 BPM
RIP AND TEAR · BARS 200-201
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 10, 12, 15, 19, 21, 29 and 24 more.

LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

232 bars across 24 sections: 124 keep time, 30 are fills, 3 are stops and 61 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 156-171.

PART AN
BREAK 6
PART AM
OUTRO
20 groovesS18BMAMAND+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rip And Tear?

216 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 Rip And Tear hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Rip And Tear?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 10, 12, 15, 19, 21, 29 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED
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