Ripper · Armed Raid

143 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-28, 30-37 and 46-49, and 3 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
RIPPER · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 29, 41, 45, 66, 71 and 8 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 14 sections: 92 keep time, 18 are fills, 19 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-99.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGROIB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ripper?

110 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 Ripper hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ripper?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 29, 41, 45, 66, 71 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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