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Aguas Profundas · David Quinlan

Aguas Profundas · David Quinlan
EXERCISE 4 OF 21
Groove E
131 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS, OUTRO
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHDIS1A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aguas Profundas on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, silence through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-31, snare through bars 32-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-73, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Aguas Profundas -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- H, D -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 29-133 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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