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Calling The Rain · Harakiri For The Sky

EXERCISE 20 OF 95
Fill at bar 39 (a small one)
187 / 328 BARS COVERED
0 / 95 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Calling The Rain on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
328
LENGTH
10:30
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-39, hi-hat through bars 40-71, ride through bars 72-87, hi-hat through bars 88-101 and toms through bars 102-103, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    104
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Calling The Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- T -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-90 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 99-123 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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