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Pray for Rain. · Polaris

EXERCISE 11 OF 65
15-bar fill at bar 24
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0 / 65 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART P
PART AD
PART AK
PART AZ
PART S9
PART BG
OUTRO
10 groovesBPS9ADAK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pray for Rain. on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-51, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-63, 65 and 67, and 2 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxx-x-xxxx---xx|
Pray for Rain. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26 and 56 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-61 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pray for Rain.?

115 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 Pray for Rain. hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Pray for Rain.?

16 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED