It Will Rain v2 · Bruno Mars

130 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-30, 37-42 and 55-63, and 3 more places -- 62.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
IT WILL RAIN V2 · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 10 sections: 95 keep time and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-101.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It Will Rain v2?

150 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 Will Rain v2 hard to play on drums?

42 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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