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Rhinestone Eyes · Gorillaz

EXERCISE 6 OF 10
Join Chorus to Outro (bars 51-53)
72 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rhinestone Eyes on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-52, toms through bars 53-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 9 more places -- 80.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |-------xx-------|
BD |x------xx-------|
Rhinestone Eyes -- 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 9 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Rhinestone Eyes?

93 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 Eyes hard to play on drums?

44 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED