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EXERCISE 23 OF 59
Hold Groove Q for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 24-31)
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PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesQAJSIL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rise & Fall on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-21, silence through bars 22-23 and snare through bars 24-39, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-30 and 57-63 -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|
Rise & Fall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 9, 11, 13, 31, 35 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-22 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-43 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L and Part V -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rise & Fall?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Rise & Fall hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Rise & Fall?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 9, 11, 13, 31, 35 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED