Where The River Goes · Stone Temple Pilots

135 bars, 8:26, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
8:26
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 6-7 and 12-18, and 13 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 64 BPM
WHERE THE RIVER GOES · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 22, 25 and 15 more.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 64 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 64 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 5 sections: 107 keep time, 21 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-135.

CHORUS
PART Q
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesASZQHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where The River Goes?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Where The River Goes hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

135 bars, about 8:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Goes?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 22, 25 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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