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Rattlesnake · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rattlesnake on drums

337 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 7:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
337
LENGTH
7:50
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-104, toms through bars 105-111, hi-hat through bars 112-312, toms through bars 313-319 and hi-hat through bars 320-337.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-31, 33-39 and 41-63, and 7 more places -- 90.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Rattlesnake -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 40-312 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rattlesnake?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rattlesnake hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

337 bars, about 7:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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