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White Rabbit · Jefferson Airplane

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 1
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play White Rabbit on drums

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

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
22/100

snare through bars 3-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-64 and kick and crashes through bars 65-66.

The beat

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.

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    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |x-----x--xxxx--x--xxxx--|
White Rabbit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 17-39 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED