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Swallowing the Rabbit Whole · Code Orange

EXERCISE 9 OF 49
Join Part B to Part D (bars 23-25)
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Swallowing the Rabbit Whole on drums

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

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-36, ride through bars 37-52, snare through bars 53-92 and toms through bars 93-100, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |xx-x-x---x-x--x-|
Swallowing the Rabbit Whole -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-40 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-80 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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