Where The River Flows · Collective Soul

113 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-8, 13-16 and 21-24, and 8 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
WHERE THE RIVER FLOWS · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 23 sections: 65 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-31.

CHORUS 3
CHORUS 6
PART H
PART B
CHORUS 9
OUTRO
5 groovesDBLHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where The River Flows?

128 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 Where The River Flows hard to play on drums?

57 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 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 Where The River Flows?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.

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