Rhinoceros · Smashing Pumpkins

101 bars, 5:28, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9, and 8 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
RHINOCEROS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 60, 68, 70, 74, 76, 78 and 6 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 5 sections: 83 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesANIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rhinoceros?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Rhinoceros hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Rhinoceros?

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 60, 68, 70, 74, 76, 78 and 6 more.

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