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Rain · Trivium

EXERCISE 26 OF 75
Fill at bar 48 and 92 (a small one)
109 / 215 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART O
PART G
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART AF
OUTRO
8 groovesDAFGOY+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rain on drums

215 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 4:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, snare through bars 16-24, hi-hat through bars 25-31, snare through bars 32-52 and ride through bars 53-66, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 33-38, and 10 more places -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 23, 24 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-59 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-97 -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 93-117 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Y -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part Y and Part AF -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rain?

212 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?

56 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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?

21 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 23, 24 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED