The River · Good Charlotte

129 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 39-45 and 47-54, and 7 more places -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 162 BPM
THE RIVER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 14, 22, 30, 38, 56, 64 and 10 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 7 sections: 84 keep time, 16 are fills, 21 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-29.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The River?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The River 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 14, 22, 30, 38, 56, 64 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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