← SONGS

Rapture (Remastered 2001) · Blondie

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove E -- Chorus
0 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 86 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rapture (Remastered 2001) on drums

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

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
5:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 2-161.

The beat

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.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xx--xxxxxx--xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Rapture (Remastered 2001) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 141-153 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED