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The River · Good Charlotte

EXERCISE 4 OF 33
Fill at bar 22, 64 and 96 (a small one)
98 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The River on drums

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.

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
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-105, silence through bars 106-108, toms through bars 109-112 and hi-hat through bars 113-129.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
The River -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- A, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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