Risley Circus · Dadaroma

142 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 13-15 and 31, and 9 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
RISLEY CIRCUS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 44, 45, 46 and 10 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 18 sections: 72 keep time, 16 are fills, 35 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-27.

PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART AC
PART AH
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
13 groovesNEHACAH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Risley Circus?

135 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 Risley Circus hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Risley Circus?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 44, 45, 46 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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