Rain · The Beatles

81 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 21 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
RAIN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 12, 16, 18 and 19 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 9 sections: 40 keep time, 25 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-4.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBS3S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rain?

112 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 hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 12, 16, 18 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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