Rushing Water · Sting

101 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-10, 16-20 and 35-49, and 4 more places -- 52.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
RUSHING WATER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 50, 67, 77 and 79.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 8 sections: 70 keep time, 4 are fills and 19 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-101.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABDJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rushing Water?

125 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 Rushing Water hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Rushing Water?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 50, 67, 77 and 79.

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