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Ripcord · Radiohead

EXERCISE 7 OF 37
Groove G
63 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART N
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART A
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesKANHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ripcord on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-26, toms through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-44, ride through bars 45-50 and toms through bars 51-58, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-33, 52-57 and 75-89 -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-x-----x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Ripcord -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 26, 34, 44, 50, 58 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- K, N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-38 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ripcord?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Ripcord hard to play on drums?

53 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Ripcord?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 26, 34, 44, 50, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED