The River · Bruce Springsteen

126 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 87-93, 95-117 and 119-126 -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
THE RIVER · BAR 88
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 37, 54, 86, 94 and 118.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 7 sections: 109 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-117.

PART B
PART D
PART B
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJBDIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The River?

112 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 The River hard to play on drums?

47 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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 The River?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 37, 54, 86, 94 and 118.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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