RAINBOWS · While She Sleeps

167 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 22 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
RAINBOWS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 14, 16, 20, 32, 38, 40 and 12 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 16 sections: 119 keep time, 18 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-83.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
PART B
CHORUS 3
12 groovesCBLPX+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is RAINBOWS?

160 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 RAINBOWS hard to play on drums?

50 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 RAINBOWS?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 14, 16, 20, 32, 38, 40 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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