Rasputin · Boney M.

11 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 0:22 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
11
LENGTH
0:22
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11 -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
RASPUTIN · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

11 bars across 2 sections: 10 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-5.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rasputin?

120 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 Rasputin hard to play on drums?

47 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

11 bars, about 0:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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