Ritual · The Warning

93 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 29-35 and 57-63, and 1 more place -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 117 BPM
RITUAL · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 13 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 20-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 13 sections: 56 keep time, 19 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-72.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART S11
OUTRO
11 groovesCFADRK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ritual?

117 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?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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