Rapture (Remastered 2001) · Blondie

161 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 5:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPunk90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
5:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-60, 62-64 and 66, and 7 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
RAPTURE (REMASTERED 2001) · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 61, 75, 152 and 154.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 154 · LANDS ON BAR 155
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 5 sections: 150 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-143.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rapture (Remastered 2001)?

108 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 Rapture (Remastered 2001) hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 5:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Rapture (Remastered 2001)?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 61, 75, 152 and 154.

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