Swallowing the Rabbit Whole · Code Orange

125 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 37-51 and 77-92 -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SWALLOWING THE RABBIT WHOLE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 36, 52, 56, 59, 60 and 21 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 9 sections: 87 keep time, 27 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesABHZD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Swallowing the Rabbit Whole?

150 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 Swallowing the Rabbit Whole hard to play on drums?

57 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Swallowing the Rabbit Whole?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 36, 52, 56, 59, 60 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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