Rain Song · Cold

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 9 more places -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 103 BPM
RAIN SONG · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 42, 50, 58, 62, 66 and 4 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 8 sections: 66 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-11.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCMKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rain Song?

103 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 Song hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Rain Song?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 42, 50, 58, 62, 66 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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