It Never Rains In Southern California · Albert Hammond

105 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-7, and 33 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
IT NEVER RAINS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 65 and 105.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 6 sections: 89 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBLCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It Never Rains In Southern California?

120 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 It Never Rains In Southern California hard to play on drums?

52 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 It Never Rains In Southern California?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 65 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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