Rivers Between Us · Draconian

155 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 6:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-22, 24-28 and 38-44, and 19 more places -- 51.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 93 BPM
RIVERS BETWEEN US · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 23, 29, 33, 45, 51 and 13 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 11 sections: 60 keep time, 19 are fills, 64 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFLBIS6+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rivers Between Us?

93 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 Rivers Between Us hard to play on drums?

44 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 6:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Rivers Between Us?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 23, 29, 33, 45, 51 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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