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Riptide · South Arcade

EXERCISE 7 OF 26
Groove C
67 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE INTRO, CHORUS, CHORUS 2
INTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Riptide on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-45, silence through bars 46-51, hi-hat through bars 52-70, silence through bars 71-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-107.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- H, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-14 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 7-65 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-78 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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