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Rainbow Demon · Uriah Heep

EXERCISE 7 OF 20
Fill at bar 57, 73 and 95 (a small one)
128 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rainbow Demon on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
38/100

ride through bars 1-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-139.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49-51 and 53-56, and 11 more places -- 70.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |g---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Rainbow Demon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 52, 57, 73, 77, 81, 86 and 8 more.

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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 12 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rainbow Demon?

119 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 Rainbow Demon hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Rainbow Demon?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 52, 57, 73, 77, 81, 86 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED