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Rushing Water · Sting

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABDJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rushing Water on drums

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

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-26, snare through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50, snare through bars 51-55, ride through bars 56-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-67, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-28 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-71 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 69-88 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED