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Rain Whispers Your Name · Valtiel

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBIS5EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rain Whispers Your Name on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
257
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
39/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-129, silence through bars 130-225 and hi-hat through bars 226-257.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |x-----------|
Rain Whispers Your Name -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B, I -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 74-130 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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