Who'll Stop The Rain · Creedence Clearwater Revival

71 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 24-30 and 40, and 1 more place -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 18, 22, 31, 33, 35 and 8 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 9 sections: 41 keep time, 15 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-13.

PART C
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDEANCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Who'll Stop The Rain?

120 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 Who'll Stop The Rain hard to play on drums?

47 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Who'll Stop The Rain?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 18, 22, 31, 33, 35 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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