ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play rare animal on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 103 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 111
LENGTH: 4:19
DIFFICULTY: 85/100

silence through bars 1-13, snare through bars 14-25, toms through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-37, toms through bars 38-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-53, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 46-48 and 58-60, and 2 more places -- 16% 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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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------------x-----|
BD |x--------x-----x--------x--------x-----x--------|

rare animal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 33, 37, 45, 49, 61, 70 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part D and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 49-54 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
Bars 54-66 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 5 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is rare animal?

103 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 rare animal hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 rare animal?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 33, 37, 45, 49, 61, 70 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED