Aguas Profundas · David Quinlan

172 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-58, 60-73 and 76-84, and 3 more places -- 52.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
AGUAS PROFUNDAS · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 128, 129, 170 and 171.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 128-129 · LANDS ON BAR 130 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 170-171 · LANDS ON BAR 172 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 9 sections: 151 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-127.

PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHDIS1A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aguas Profundas?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Aguas Profundas hard to play on drums?

55 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Aguas Profundas?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 128, 129, 170 and 171.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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