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Rising Force · Yngwie Malmsteen

EXERCISE 2 OF 40
Groove E -- Chorus
33 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rising Force on drums

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.

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

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

silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-23, hi-hat through bars 24-39, ride through bars 40-47, hi-hat through bars 48-55 and ride through bars 56-63, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Rising Force -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-125 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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