Not In Rivers, But In Drops · Isis

250 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 8:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
8:06
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74-75, 77-78 and 93-94, and 6 more places -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
NOT IN RIVERS, BUT IN DROPS · BAR 77
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 104 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 98 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 16-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 32-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 17 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

250 bars across 22 sections: 99 keep time, 104 are fills, 16 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART B
PART AH
PART AH
CHORUS
PART BW
PART CE
20 groovesAQBAHCEBW+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Not In Rivers, But In Drops?

116 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 Not In Rivers, But In Drops 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

250 bars, about 8:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Not In Rivers, But In Drops?

20 fills to learn, played 104 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 98 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 250 BARS ANALYSED
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