I Wish It Would Rain Down · Phil Collins

86 bars, 5:28, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PopRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-52, 54-56 and 58, and 7 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 63 BPM
I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 25, 41, 49, 57, 61 and 7 more.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 4 sections: 68 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
4 groovesCJGS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Wish It Would Rain Down?

63 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is I Wish It Would Rain Down hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Wish It Would Rain Down?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 25, 41, 49, 57, 61 and 7 more.

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