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Acid Rain V2 · Angra

EXERCISE 22 OF 100
Groove N -- Part N
74 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 100 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART A
PART F
PART N
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AP
OUTRO
20 groovesABAPABLS+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 5
JOIN · 22
LINK · 5
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Acid Rain V2 on drums

176 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-23, ride through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-45, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-60, 66-69 and 120-125, and 1 more place -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Acid Rain V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 31 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 83 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 -- AB -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BL -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Acid Rain V2?

120 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 V2 hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 27 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 V2?

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 31 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED