Rhinestone Cowboy · Glen Campbell

97 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-24 and 43-62 -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
RHINESTONE COWBOY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 25, 26, 63, 64, 80 and 96.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 6 sections: 82 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-62.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesCFAHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rhinestone Cowboy?

110 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 Rhinestone Cowboy hard to play on drums?

50 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Rhinestone Cowboy?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 25, 26, 63, 64, 80 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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