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12 Days Of Rain · October Tide

12 Days Of Rain · October Tide
EXERCISE 5 OF 47
Groove V -- Part V
73 / 218 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
PART K
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART V
PART V
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBDKVS5+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 12 Days Of Rain on drums

218 bars, 13:35, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
13:35
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-32, snare through bars 33-55, silence through bars 56-58, ride through bars 59-67 and silence through bars 68-76, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-32 and 119-121, and 3 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------------------X-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
12 Days Of Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 48, 54, 92, 110, 126, 184 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, K -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 34-55 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and Part S5 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 12 Days Of Rain?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is 12 Days Of Rain hard to play on drums?

52 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 13:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 12 Days Of Rain?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 48, 54, 92, 110, 126, 184 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED