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Rivers Between Us · Draconian

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 76 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFLBIS6+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rivers Between Us on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
44/100

ride through bars 2-15, hi-hat through bars 16-29, ride through bars 30-33, snare through bars 34-37, hi-hat through bars 38-53 and snare through bars 54-68, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
Rivers Between Us -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F, L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-51 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-37 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S6 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 98-119 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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