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Ripped Flesh · Cinder

EXERCISE 5 OF 85
Groove O -- Chorus
78 / 223 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
PART F
PART K
PART M
CHORUS
PART I
PART P
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART M
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesOMACIF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ripped Flesh on drums

223 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26, silence through bars 27-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-53, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-52, 111-117 and 119-125, and 2 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    111
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Ripped Flesh -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 17, 25 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-26 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-55 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ripped Flesh?

190 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 Ripped Flesh hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Ripped Flesh?

22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 17, 25 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED