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Let it rain · Amanda Marshall AI

Let it rain · Amanda Marshall AI
EXERCISE 7 OF 16
Groove H
51 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let it rain on drums

84 bars, 4:32, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-55, silence through bars 56-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 21-27, and 12 more places -- 62.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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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-----|
Let it rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 19, 28, 36, 42 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Let it rain?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Let it rain hard to play on drums?

37 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Let it rain?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 19, 28, 36, 42 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED