Risingson · Massive Attack

193 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicHip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 32, and 14 more places -- 58.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 164 BPM
RISINGSON · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 153 and 193.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 153 · LANDS ON BAR 154
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 193
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 16 sections: 134 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 157-192.

PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKS10FGJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Risingson?

164 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 Risingson hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Risingson?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 153 and 193.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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