LENNY KRAVITZ · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in I Love The Rain

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.

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
29/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 121 BPM
I LOVE THE RAIN · BAR 2

It is played on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 9 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 29 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 91 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 91, 106 and 121 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does I Love The Rain use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 121 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 80.3% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1-25, 28-52, 55-103 and 106-120.

Is the beat in I Love The Rain hard?

9 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED