Rag Doll · Aerosmith

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 10-12 and 14-16, and 12 more places -- 77.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 93 BPM
RAG DOLL · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 9.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars: 85 keep time, 2 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-82.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rag Doll?

93 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 Rag Doll 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Rag Doll?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 9.

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