Rainbow In The Dark · Ronnie James Dio

120 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-5, 7-8 and 11-17, and 10 more places -- 57.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
RAINBOW IN THE DARK · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 6, 9, 10, 18, 26 and 14 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 11 sections: 61 keep time, 20 are fills and 26 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-110.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCSJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rainbow In The Dark?

115 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 In The Dark 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 In The Dark?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 6, 9, 10, 18, 26 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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