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Riviera Paradise · Stevie Ray Vaughan

EXERCISE 14 OF 32
Groove P -- Part P
92 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART P
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Riviera Paradise on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
58 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
8:46
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-13, ride through bars 14-31, hi-hat through bars 32-33, ride through bars 34-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-51, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------r-----------------------r-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Riviera Paradise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part P and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 74-127 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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