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The Same River · Riverside

The Same River · Riverside
EXERCISE 44 OF 120
Fill at bar 111, 135, 143 and 3 more (a small one)
150 / 392 BARS COVERED
0 / 120 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART E
PART M
CHORUS
PART S29
OUTRO
25 groovesXS29MEAV+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 7
JOIN · 16
LINK · 5
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Same River on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
392
LENGTH
15:33
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, silence through bars 9-19, snare through bars 20-35, hi-hat through bars 36-68 and silence through bars 69-71, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    121
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x--x-x--x-x-|
The Same River -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 90 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 -- X -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-80 -- 10 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-79 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part V -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-107 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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