ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Why Rabies? on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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: 112 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 156
LENGTH: 5:34
DIFFICULTY: 57/100

ride through bars 1-25, silence through bars 26-28, ride through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60, silence through bars 61-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-80, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-4, 6 and 9-12, and 4 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------------x-|
RD |x-x-x-x-x---x---|x---x-x-x-x-x---|
HH |--------------o-|--o-------------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|x-------x-x-----|
HF |----------------|x---x-----------|

Why Rabies? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 24, 40, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- A, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Bars 1-34 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part G and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
Through Part S5 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
Through Part S5 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 58-92 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Why Rabies??

112 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 Why Rabies? 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Why Rabies??

7 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 24, 40, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED