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Rainbow Road · Mario Kart World

Rainbow Road · Mario Kart World
EXERCISE 5 OF 94
4-bar fill at bar 1
55 / 206 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 5
JOIN · 16
LINK · 8
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rainbow Road on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-102, ride through bars 103-108, snare through bars 109-114 and hi-hat through bars 115-162, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 79 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 -- AD, M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-32 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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