Rasputin · Boney M.

138 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-21, 24-25 and 27-33, and 20 more places -- 65.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
RASPUTIN · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 22, 92 and 100.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 5 sections: 130 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-91.

CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
3 groovesCFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rasputin?

130 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?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Rasputin?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 22, 92 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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