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Where the rain grows · Helloween High Live, 1996

Where the rain grows · Helloween High Live, 1996
EXERCISE 1 OF 74
Groove X -- Chorus
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PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesXGAAAST+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where the rain grows on drums

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.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-19, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Where the rain grows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-56 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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