Rosanna · Toto

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 5:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 101-119 -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
ROSANNA · BAR 102
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 19, 24, 25, 26, 34 and 15 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 14 sections: 79 keep time and 21 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-119.

PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART AA
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHALFCM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rosanna?

82 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Rosanna hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Rosanna?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 19, 24, 25, 26, 34 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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