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The River · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 9 OF 56
Fill at bar 21 and 62
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CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART E
PART G
PART S10
PART S
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
12 groovesCGESAF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The River on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-13, hi-hat through bars 14-23, snare through bars 24-46, hi-hat through bars 47-64 and snare through bars 65-79, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 39-45 and 120-126, and 2 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |x-----------------------------------------------|
BD |------x-----------x-----x-----------------x-x-x-|
The River -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 21, 29, 46, 62, 74 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-58 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The River?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 21, 29, 46, 62, 74 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED