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Ritual · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 20 OF 73
Run C1 · Chorus (bars 5-32)
85 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART AJ
PART O
CHORUS 4
11 groovesCOAAJAP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ritual on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 6:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-20, toms through bars 21-36 and snare through bars 37-40, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 21-27, and 5 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---------------|------------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------|
T2 |xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-x|x-xx-xx-xx--|
FT |--x-----x-----x-|-x-----x--x-|
BD |xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-x|x-xx-xx-xx--|
Ritual -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 28, 29, 30 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-57 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part AJ -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ritual?

92 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 Ritual hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ritual?

18 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 28, 29, 30 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED