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When It Rains · Paramore

EXERCISE 15 OF 35
Groove I
62 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
6 groovesHFNCS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When It Rains on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-30, ride through bars 31-42, toms through bars 43-58 and ride through bars 59-66, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-39 and 59-61, and 3 more places -- 21.3% 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
RD |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x-------x-------|
When It Rains -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 30, 50, 58, 66, 78 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- H, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-31 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 44-67 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is When It Rains?

117 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 When It Rains hard to play on drums?

51 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in When It Rains?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 30, 50, 58, 66, 78 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED