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I Love The Rain · Lenny Kravitz

EXERCISE 6 OF 11
Fill at bar 137 and 145 (a small one)
131 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Love The Rain on drums

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

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

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

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----x-------x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
HF |x---------------|
I Love The Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
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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