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If Rain is What You Want · Slipknot

EXERCISE 9 OF 53
Fill at bar 32 (a small one)
118 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART O
PART H
OUTRO
7 groovesCHUAO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If Rain is What You Want on drums

176 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 5:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-21, snare through bars 22-52, hi-hat through bars 53-60, snare through bars 61-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-101, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 41-47, and 2 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |rrr-r-rrxrrrr-r-|
BD |x-------------x-|
HF |--------x-------|
If Rain is What You Want -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 52, 60, 76 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 50-61 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 78-108 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 119-138 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is If Rain is What You Want?

127 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 If Rain is What You Want hard to play on drums?

44 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 If Rain is What You Want?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 52, 60, 76 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED