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Ripped to Pieces1 · Agonal Breathing

Ripped to Pieces1 · Agonal Breathing
EXERCISE 7 OF 15
Run C1 · Part C (bars 36-50)
94 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesACFS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ripped to Pieces1 on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-34, snare through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-42, snare through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-70 and snare through bars 71-84, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 19-34 and 51-66, and 2 more places -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Ripped to Pieces1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 36-77 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ripped to Pieces1?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Ripped to Pieces1 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED