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Rasputin · Boney M.

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rasputin on drums

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.

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
32/100

toms through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-22, snare through bars 23-49, hi-hat through bars 50-51 and snare through bars 52-138.

The beat

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.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|
Rasputin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-93 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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