Raining In Manila · Lola Amour

132 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 13 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.

LOOP · 114 BPM
RAINING IN MANILA · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 11, 12, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 32 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 35-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 49-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 11 sections: 71 keep time, 39 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-109.

PART A
PART K
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGKAJOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Raining In Manila?

114 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 Raining In Manila 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Raining In Manila?

9 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 11, 12, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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