The Same River · Riverside

392 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 15:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
392
LENGTH
15:33
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 104-106, 108-110 and 112-114, and 13 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THE SAME RIVER · BAR 121
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 5, 7, 43, 59, 63, 65 and 60 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 65-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

392 bars across 31 sections: 181 keep time, 66 are fills, 30 are stops and 90 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-35.

PART E
PART M
CHORUS
PART S29
OUTRO
25 groovesXS29MEAV+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Same River?

100 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 Same River hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

392 bars, about 15:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Same River?

29 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 5, 7, 43, 59, 63, 65 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 392 BARS ANALYSED
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