Rosalita · Bruce Springsteen

266 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 7:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
7:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-36, 45-65 and 72-77, and 13 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 143 BPM
ROSALITA · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 2, 6, 7, 8, 40, 41 and 34 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 40-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 68-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

266 bars across 24 sections: 194 keep time, 40 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-36.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART AL
15 groovesGSHALF+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rosalita?

143 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 Rosalita hard to play on drums?

55 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

266 bars, about 7:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 21 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 Rosalita?

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 2, 6, 7, 8, 40, 41 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 266 BARS ANALYSED
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