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EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove T (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 48 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fall Like Rain on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-24, snare through bars 25-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-31, snare through bars 32-34 and toms through bars 35-38, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    48                               49
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------x-x---------|x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------x---x---|----x-x-------x-x---x-------x---|
Fall Like Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BD -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-64 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-48 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-71 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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