Calling The Rain · Harakiri For The Sky

328 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 10:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
328
LENGTH
10:30
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 104-109, 112-117 and 168-174, and 6 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
CALLING THE RAIN · BAR 104
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 37, 39, 47 and 32 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

328 bars across 20 sections: 236 keep time, 38 are fills, 6 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 192-212.

CHORUS
PART I
PART N
PART T
PART T
PART N
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCTNYI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Calling The Rain?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Calling The Rain hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

328 bars, about 10:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Calling The Rain?

28 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 37, 39, 47 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 328 BARS ANALYSED
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