Fall Like Rain · Invent animate

125 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 4% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 48-49 and 88-89 -- 4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
FALL LIKE RAIN · BARS 48-49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 20, 35, 51, 72, 73 and 7 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 15 sections: 43 keep time, 13 are fills, 35 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-119.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART H
PART L
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART S12
OUTRO
14 groovesAILS1HBD+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fall Like Rain?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Fall Like Rain hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fall Like Rain?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 20, 35, 51, 72, 73 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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