Ripped from the Cross · Grotesque

166 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 29-31, and 9 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
RIPPED FROM THE CROSS · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 16, 32, 36, 40, 41 and 14 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 40-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 69-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 17 sections: 104 keep time, 20 are fills, 20 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 123-136.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART J
OUTRO
6 groovesBKJFQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ripped from the Cross?

170 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 from the Cross hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Ripped from the Cross?

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 16, 32, 36, 40, 41 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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