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Ripper · Armed Raid

Ripper · Armed Raid
EXERCISE 25 OF 45
Groove L
102 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ripper on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-22, hi-hat through bars 23-57, kick and crashes through bars 58-59, silence through bars 60-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-143.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--xx--xx-x|
Ripper -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R, O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-69 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-42 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-49 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-83 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Bars 102-131 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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