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Rosanna · Toto

EXERCISE 4 OF 57
Groove H -- Chorus
33 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rosanna on drums

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.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
90/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-52, toms through bars 53-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-61, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    102
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x---x-|
SD |---------x-----------------x--------x-------g---|
BD |x-----------------x--------x------------------x-|
Rosanna -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- AL -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 16-56 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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