Ritalin · Dexter and The Moonrocks

94 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-29, 42 and 73-80 -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
RITALIN · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 58, 59, 60, 89 and 94.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 58-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 94
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 10 sections: 72 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-29.

CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART G
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAGCS6D+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ritalin?

115 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 Ritalin hard to play on drums?

40 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ritalin?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 58, 59, 60, 89 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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