Rising Force · Yngwie Malmsteen

133 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 45-46 and 57-58, and 8 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
RISING FORCE · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 21, 23, 28, 29, 30, 39 and 9 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 11 sections: 85 keep time, 15 are fills, 10 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-98.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART L
7 groovesELRBS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rising Force?

130 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 Rising Force hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Rising Force?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 21, 23, 28, 29, 30, 39 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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