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Ritual · The Warning

EXERCISE 26 OF 45
Join Part R to Part K (bars 47-49)
66 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, PART K
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ritual on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, snare through bars 29-37, hi-hat through bars 38-56 and snare through bars 57-74, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-49 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-65 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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