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EXERCISE 6 OF 23
Groove F
124 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rain on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
42/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-107, ride through bars 108-109, hi-hat through bars 110-117, snare through bars 118-123 and ride through bars 124-125, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----x-------x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 118-131 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED