Riviera Paradise · Stevie Ray Vaughan

127 bars, 8:46, at 58 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Jazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
58 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
8:46
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-17, 22-28 and 36-40, and 9 more places -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 58 BPM
RIVIERA PARADISE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 29, 63, 75, 76, 77, 87 and 4 more.

LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 58 BPM
BARS 75-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 58 BPM
BARS 124-127 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 10 sections: 94 keep time, 10 are fills, 5 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-123.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART E
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesCPEBG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Riviera Paradise?

58 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Riviera Paradise hard to play on drums?

49 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 8:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Riviera Paradise?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 29, 63, 75, 76, 77, 87 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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