Rhinosaur · Soundgarden

100 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 83 BPM, 3:52 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-17, 26-41 and 92-98 -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 83 BPM
RHINOSAUR · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 55, 63, 83 and 99.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 9 sections: 76 keep time, 5 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-40.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART H
PART K
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDKNHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rhinosaur?

83 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Rhinosaur hard to play on drums?

54 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Rhinosaur?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 55, 63, 83 and 99.

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