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Rhinoceros · Smashing Pumpkins

EXERCISE 10 OF 42
Groove E
65 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesANIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rhinoceros on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-26, ride through bars 27-36, hi-hat through bars 37-51, ride through bars 52-60, hi-hat through bars 61-68 and ride through bars 69-76, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x-x-x---x---x---x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Rhinoceros -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-58 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED