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It Never Rains In Southern California · Albert Hammond

EXERCISE 15 OF 25
Groove K
88 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBLCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It Never Rains In Southern California on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-57, ride through bars 58-65, hi-hat through bars 66-97 and ride through bars 98-105.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
It Never Rains In Southern California -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-57 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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