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Rain Song · Cold

EXERCISE 27 OF 32
Fill at bar 70
84 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rain Song on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 3-58, ride through bars 59-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-87.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Rain Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-63 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-67 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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