Acid Rain · Alpha Current

21 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 0:50 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
21
LENGTH
0:50
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 13-14, and 1 more place -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ACID RAIN · BARS 5-6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 2 and 3.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

21 bars: 17 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-20.

OUTRO
1 grooveDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Acid Rain?

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 Acid Rain hard to play on drums?

64 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

21 bars, about 0:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Acid Rain?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 2 and 3.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 21 BARS ANALYSED
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