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Riptide · Vance Joy

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove D -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Riptide on drums

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.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
92/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36 and ride through bars 37-53, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |xgxgxgxgxgxgxgxg|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |--xx--x---xx--x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|
Riptide -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-47 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-67 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED