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Rhinosaur · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rhinosaur on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-49, toms through bars 50-55, ride through bars 56-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-100.

The beat

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.

    2            3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
HH |--x-x-x-o-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----x-|-----x--x---|
BD |x--x----x---|--x-x-x--x--|
Rhinosaur -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 48-57 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-84 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED