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RAINBOWS · While She Sleeps

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 60 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCBLPX+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play RAINBOWS on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-49, snare through bars 50-63 and toms through bars 64-66, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- C, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-18 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-33 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-88 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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