Riptide · South Arcade

107 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 20 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
RIPTIDE · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 53, 68, 69, 104, 105 and 2 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 104-107 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 12 sections: 73 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-37.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
PART G
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBGS9HS6+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Riptide?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth 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?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Riptide?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 53, 68, 69, 104, 105 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other South Arcade drum parts

EVERY SOUTH ARCADE CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →