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Not In Rivers, But In Drops · Isis

EXERCISE 8 OF 96
Groove A -- Part A
45 / 250 BARS COVERED
0 / 96 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 5
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not In Rivers, But In Drops on drums

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.

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
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
8:06
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-36, ride through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-44, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    77
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---|
BD |x-----x--x--|
Not In Rivers, But In Drops -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- AH, AK -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part S3 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-54 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and Part AD -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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