Where the rain grows · Helloween High Live, 1996

149 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-38, 40-42 and 44-45, and 9 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WHERE THE RAIN GROWS · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 41 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 1-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 13-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 11 sections: 87 keep time, 47 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-59.

PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesXGAAAST+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where the rain grows?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Where the rain grows hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Where the rain grows?

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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