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Acid Rain · Liquid Tension Experiment

EXERCISE 1 OF 75
Groove AX -- Chorus
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0 / 75 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 8
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Acid Rain on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

hi-hat through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-40, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    156
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
FT |x--------x--------x--------x-----x--------x-----|
BD |x--------x--------x--------x-----x--------x-----|
Acid Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- AX -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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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