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Raging River · B'Z

EXERCISE 13 OF 73
Groove H
41 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
BREAK
PART S
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
10 groovesFZSS5AB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Raging River on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 5:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
66/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-27, ride through bars 28-44, silence through bars 45-56, ride through bars 57-80 and silence through bars 81-90, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-17 and 19, and 4 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x-x-x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-----------|
Raging River -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 60, 64, 65 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- F, J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Raging River?

87 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Raging River hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Raging River?

18 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 60, 64, 65 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED