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Rhinestone Cowboy · Glen Campbell

EXERCISE 13 OF 25
Groove I
89 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesCFAHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rhinestone Cowboy on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
50/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-o-x-|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Rhinestone Cowboy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-30 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-97 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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