Rain · Dragon

137 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

ProgressivePop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-27 and 29-32, and 16 more places -- 70.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 155 BPM
RAIN · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 129.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 129 · LANDS ON BAR 130
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 6 sections: 118 keep time, 4 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-73.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rain?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rain hard to play on drums?

42 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 129.

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