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Riptide · Sick Puppies

Riptide · Sick Puppies
EXERCISE 15 OF 49
Groove G -- Part G
75 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, PART G
PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFAAECGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Riptide on drums

123 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-29, toms through bars 30-31, snare through bars 32-36, toms through bars 37-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-58, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 15 and 17-23, and 2 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 24, 30, 31, 37, 38, 40 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 26-66 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 94-105 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Riptide?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Riptide hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Riptide?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 24, 30, 31, 37, 38, 40 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED