Pouring Rain · Dionysus

10 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 0:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
10
LENGTH
0:18
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 133 BPM
POURING RAIN · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 3.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

11 bars across 4 sections: 6 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-10.

BREAK
BREAK 2
OUTRO
BREAK 3
3 groovesBS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pouring Rain?

133 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 Pouring Rain hard to play on drums?

40 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

10 bars, about 0:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 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 Pouring Rain?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 3.

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