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Rainfall · LANDMVRKS

EXERCISE 37 OF 64
Fill at bar 57 (a small one)
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0 / 64 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART S2
PART O
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART Y
PART S8
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBOAERAG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rainfall on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-23, toms through bars 24-25, snare through bars 26-64, toms through bars 65-72 and silence through bars 73-77, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 8 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-|
Rainfall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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, O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-51 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-26 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-53 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-66 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rainfall?

132 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Rainfall hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Rainfall?

17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED