All At Sea · Jamie Cullum

166 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-19 and 21, and 32 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 174 BPM
ALL AT SEA · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 112, 128, 136, 140 and 164.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 136 · LANDS ON BAR 137 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 11 sections: 125 keep time, 5 are fills, 9 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-97.

CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART J
OUTRO
8 groovesBDJMS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All At Sea?

174 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 All At Sea hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in All At Sea?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 112, 128, 136, 140 and 164.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Jamie Cullum drum parts

AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →