The Rip · Portishead

91 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:29 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-35, 37-43 and 45-51, and 3 more places -- 94.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 147 BPM
THE RIP · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 2 sections: 87 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-91.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Rip?

147 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 The Rip hard to play on drums?

54 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 4 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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