Ripprerology (V2) · Skeletal Remains

269 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 7:37 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
269
LENGTH
7:37
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 84-90, 92-94 and 96-98, and 10 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
RIPPREROLOGY (V2) · BARS 84-85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 31 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

269 bars across 27 sections: 167 keep time, 38 are fills, 33 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 245-259.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AA
CHORUS 3
PART AW
20 groovesVAAAAWK+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ripprerology (V2)?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Ripprerology (V2) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

269 bars, about 7:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 25 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 Ripprerology (V2)?

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 269 BARS ANALYSED
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