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The Rich are Killing the Poor · Opposition rising

The Rich are Killing the Poor · Opposition rising
EXERCISE 30 OF 40
Groove P -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
108 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDCPBN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Rich are Killing the Poor on drums

117 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-9, toms through bars 10-18, hi-hat through bars 19-77, snare through bars 78-80 and toms through bars 81-109, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-27, 34 and 36, and 15 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
The Rich are Killing the Poor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 41, 49, 61, 69, 77, 109 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-22 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-70 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Rich are Killing the Poor?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Rich are Killing the Poor hard to play on drums?

59 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Rich are Killing the Poor?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 41, 49, 61, 69, 77, 109 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED