River Of Sorrows · Paleface Swiss

101 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 75 BPM, 4:15 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-21, 23 and 40-44, and 8 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
RIVER OF SORROWS · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 22, 24, 34, 45, 47 and 13 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 17 sections: 45 keep time, 19 are fills, 6 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-100.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCS1ACJX+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is River Of Sorrows?

75 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is River Of Sorrows hard to play on drums?

51 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in River Of Sorrows?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 22, 24, 34, 45, 47 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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