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Rise Above · Black Flag

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove E -- Outro 2
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PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rise Above on drums

63 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 1:07 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
1:07
DIFFICULTY
93/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 11 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |--oooooo--oooooo|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Rise Above -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 63.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-20 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rise Above?

220 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 Rise Above hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 1:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Rise Above?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED