When Will It Rain · Jackyl

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 8 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 106 BPM
WHEN WILL IT RAIN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32 and 20 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 14 sections: 77 keep time and 26 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-100.

CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART J
PART D
OUTRO 2
8 groovesACDOJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When Will It Rain?

106 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 Will It Rain hard to play on drums?

50 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 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 When Will It Rain?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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