Endless Rain · X JAPAN

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 5:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 18 more places -- 55.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

Where it comes off the beat

12 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
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 75 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-63.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCS6LS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Endless Rain?

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 hard to play on drums?

57 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?

106 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 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?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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