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Where The River Flows · Collective Soul

Where The River Flows · Collective Soul
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EXERCISE 9 OF 21
Groove H -- Part H
93 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART B
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where The River Flows on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, toms through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20 and toms through bars 21-24, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---------x-----|--x---x-x-------|
Where The River Flows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-104 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED