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Ritual de Cabras Decapitadas · Ikarust

EXERCISE 12 OF 26
Groove D (a two-bar phrase)
188 / 194 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFHCBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ritual de Cabras Decapitadas on drums

194 bars at 235 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
235 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
75/100

snare through bars 1-49, ride through bars 50-65, hi-hat through bars 66-73, ride through bars 74-81, snare through bars 82-113 and ride through bars 114-129, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-31, 34-39 and 42-47, and 5 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Ritual de Cabras Decapitadas -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 25, 33, 41, 49, 65, 81 and 8 more.

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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-66 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 62-83 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ritual de Cabras Decapitadas?

235 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ritual de Cabras Decapitadas hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Ritual de Cabras Decapitadas?

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 25, 33, 41, 49, 65, 81 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED