Riptide · Vance Joy

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 37-44 and 47-49, and 3 more places -- 47.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
RIPTIDE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 46, 50, 66 and 74.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 10 sections: 68 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-35.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCABH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Riptide?

92 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 Riptide hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 96 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 46, 50, 66 and 74.

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