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The River · Wage War

EXERCISE 16 OF 55
Groove J -- Part J
55 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART D
PART J
PART E
BREAK 2
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesRES18DF+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The River on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
48/100

toms through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-53, silence through bars 54-61, snare through bars 62-71, toms through bars 72-77 and snare through bars 78-124, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 11 and 13, and 13 more places -- 14.2% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-xx--x-xxxxxxxx|
The River -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 23, 24, 30 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- E, R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-63 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-25 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 23-31 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-41 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-98 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The River?

145 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?

48 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 23, 24, 30 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED