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Risingson · Massive Attack

EXERCISE 14 OF 32
Groove L
134 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Risingson on drums

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.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-14, snare through bars 15-27, hi-hat through bars 28-40, snare through bars 41-43 and silence through bars 44-51, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Risingson -- 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 153 and 193.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- K, J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Bars 10-144 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-17 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-79 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 79-137 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 137-193 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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