White Rabbit · Jefferson Airplane

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
22/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-20, 25-32 and 36, and 1 more place -- 60.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
WHITE RABBIT · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 7 sections: 56 keep time, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-20.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is White Rabbit?

100 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 White Rabbit hard to play on drums?

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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