River · Bishop Briggs

108 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-29, 31-35 and 37-39, and 8 more places -- 53.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
RIVER · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 15 sections: 85 keep time and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-59.

BREAK
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesCAS3S10S1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is River?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 River hard to play on drums?

34 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, floor tom and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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