Your River · My Dying Bride

176 bars, 11:54, at 61 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
61 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
11:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 106-112, 114-120 and 122-128 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 61 BPM
YOUR RIVER · BARS 108-109
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 7, 12, 13, 15, 20 and 23 more.

LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 61 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 16 sections: 98 keep time, 29 are fills, 21 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-71.

PART E
PART M
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AJ
PART AG
PART R
OUTRO
12 groovesWMAGAJI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Your River?

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

Is Your River hard to play on drums?

61 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 11:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Your River?

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 7, 12, 13, 15, 20 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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