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When Will It Rain · Jackyl

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove D -- Part D
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CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When Will It Rain on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-52, ride through bars 53-56, hi-hat through bars 57-61, snare through bars 62-67, toms through bars 68-73 and ride through bars 74-82, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
When Will It Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- D, A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-26 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-35 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-81 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-53 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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