Rain on the Steps of Cathedrals · 4 crackheads

203 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 162-171 and 188-203 -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
RAIN ON THE STEPS OF CATHEDRALS · BARS 162-163
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 19 and 5 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 10-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 9 sections: 85 keep time, 11 are fills, 8 are stops and 92 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-80.

PART F
BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesS6JNFP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rain on the Steps of Cathedrals?

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

Is Rain on the Steps of Cathedrals hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 on the Steps of Cathedrals?

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 19 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED
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