← SONGS

So Fell Autumn Rain · Lake Of Tears

So Fell Autumn Rain · Lake Of Tears
EXERCISE 27 OF 27
Play the whole song with the record
116 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 137 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBHDS1F+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Fell Autumn Rain on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-27, hi-hat through bars 28-47, ride through bars 48-78, hi-hat through bars 79-121 and ride through bars 122-137.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27 and 48-54, and 5 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
So Fell Autumn Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 121, 129 and 137.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 28-93 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 84-121 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is So Fell Autumn Rain?

120 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 So Fell Autumn Rain 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 So Fell Autumn Rain?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 121, 129 and 137.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED