Rainbow Road · Mario Kart World

206 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 5:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 85-87, 89-91 and 93-95, and 3 more places -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
RAINBOW ROAD · BAR 86
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 40, 43 and 31 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 43-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 17 sections: 142 keep time, 37 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-24.

PART F
PART M
CHORUS
PART AD
PART AK
PART AL
PART W
PART AZ
OUTRO 2
15 groovesYFMALW+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rainbow Road?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rainbow Road hard to play on drums?

63 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Rainbow Road?

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 40, 43 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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