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I Think I Like When It Rains · WILLIS

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove C -- Outro 2
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Think I Like When It Rains on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
39/100

snare through bars 1-2 and ride through bars 3-139.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8 and 10, and 23 more places -- 73% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x------x|
BD |x---------------|
I Think I Like When It Rains -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 97 and 98.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Think I Like When It Rains?

125 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 Think I Like When It Rains hard to play on drums?

39 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 I Think I Like When It Rains?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 97 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED