Rip the corpses · Riptor

189 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 18-20, and 13 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
RIP THE CORPSES · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 13 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 13-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 14 sections: 134 keep time, 20 are fills, 20 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-51.

CHORUS 2
PART E
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBEOWQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rip the corpses?

165 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 the corpses hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Rip the corpses?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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