I Surrender · Rainbow

126 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 24-25 and 28-29, and 13 more places -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
I SURRENDER · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 13 and 26 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 7 sections: 85 keep time, 32 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-43.

PART E
PART J
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesNJFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Surrender?

132 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 Surrender hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I Surrender?

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 13 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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