Rain Whispers Your Name · Valtiel

257 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 5:51 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
257
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-24, and 13 more places -- 44.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
RAIN WHISPERS YOUR NAME · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 73, 121, 161, 177, 193 and 3 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 161 · LANDS ON BAR 162
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 177 · LANDS ON BAR 178 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

257 bars across 6 sections: 192 keep time, 9 are fills, 22 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 242-257.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBIS5EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rain Whispers Your Name?

132 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Whispers Your Name hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

257 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Whispers Your Name?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 73, 121, 161, 177, 193 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 257 BARS ANALYSED
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