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I Wish It Would Rain Down · Phil Collins

EXERCISE 7 OF 34
Groove D
53 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
4 groovesCJGS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Wish It Would Rain Down on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-41, ride through bars 42-83 and toms through bars 84-86.

The beat

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.

    52
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
I Wish It Would Rain Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- J, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 36-50 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED