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Who'll Stop The Rain · Creedence Clearwater Revival

EXERCISE 37 OF 37
Play the whole song with the record
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0 / 37 PASSED · 71 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Who'll Stop The Rain on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
47/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Who'll Stop The Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D, E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-15 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-46 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-71 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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