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Rain · Creed

EXERCISE 14 OF 18
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rain on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 2-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-26, 44-52 and 54-60, and 1 more place -- 51.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 18, 42, 43, 53, 61 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-39 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Rain?

120 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 Rain hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 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 Rain?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 18, 42, 43, 53, 61 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED