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Risley Circus · Dadaroma

Risley Circus · Dadaroma
EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove E -- Part E
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0 / 61 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART S
PART E
PART AC
PART AH
CHORUS 3
PART S13
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesNEHACAH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Risley Circus on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-47 and snare through bars 48-77, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Risley Circus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- E, N -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-52 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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