Acid Rain · Liquid Tension Experiment

239 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 6:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
6:35
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 156-158, 160-161 and 167-169, and 8 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
ACID RAIN · BAR 156
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 62, 162, 218, 219, 220 and 221.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 162 · LANDS ON BAR 163
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 218-221 · LANDS ON BAR 222 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

239 bars across 18 sections: 194 keep time, 6 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 176-217.

PART P
PART S
PART AC
PART AG
PART AL
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
17 groovesAXALAGACP+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Acid Rain?

144 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?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 6:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 28 sittings, about 23 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 Acid Rain?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 62, 162, 218, 219, 220 and 221.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED
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