I Love The Rain · Lenny Kravitz

145 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-25, 28-52 and 55-103, and 1 more place -- 80.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 121 BPM
I LOVE THE RAIN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 137, 141 and 145.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 137 · LANDS ON BAR 138 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 141 · LANDS ON BAR 142
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 2 sections: 101 keep time, 3 are fills, 37 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-25.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Love The Rain?

121 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 I Love The Rain hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I Love The Rain?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 137, 141 and 145.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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