endless rain ver1 · X Japan

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 19 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 78 BPM
ENDLESS RAIN VER1 · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 13, 25, 37, 49, 64 and 8 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 5 sections: 74 keep time, 14 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-63.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFCS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is endless rain ver1?

78 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 endless rain ver1 hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 endless rain ver1?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 13, 25, 37, 49, 64 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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