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Ritalin · Dexter and The Moonrocks

EXERCISE 5 OF 28
Join Chorus to Break (bars 28-30)
53 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ritalin on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
40/100

snare through bars 1-41, hi-hat through bars 42-50, snare through bars 51-57, toms through bars 58-63, silence through bars 64-72 and snare through bars 73-94.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Ritalin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- A, G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 28-42 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 39-51 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-64 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 79-94 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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