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Where The River Goes · Stone Temple Pilots

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove A -- Chorus
0 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART S, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART Q
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesASZQHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where The River Goes on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
8:26
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-24, ride through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-40 and ride through bars 41-42, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- A, Z -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-122 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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