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Catch The Rainbow · Rainbow

EXERCISE 7 OF 15
Groove H (a two-bar phrase)
80 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Catch The Rainbow on drums

106 bars, 6:30, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
6:30
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-106.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-8 and 10-11, and 26 more places -- 66% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|
Catch The Rainbow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 9, 55 and 56.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Catch The Rainbow?

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

Is Catch The Rainbow hard to play on drums?

45 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 6:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Catch The Rainbow?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 9, 55 and 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED