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River Of Sorrows · Paleface Swiss

EXERCISE 38 OF 45
2-bar fill at bar 74
79 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 5
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
BREAK 5
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCS1ACJX+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play River Of Sorrows on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-25, silence through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-39, snare through bars 40-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-55, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |X-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |X---x---x-x-|
River Of Sorrows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC, J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-52 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-66 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-73 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Break 5 and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-96 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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