Backwater · Meat Puppets

100 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 20-21, and 12 more places -- 46.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BACKWATER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 45, 51, 55, 59, 98 and 99.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 8 sections: 81 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-38.

CHORUS
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGLIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Backwater?

113 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 Backwater hard to play on drums?

52 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?

100 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 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 Backwater?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 45, 51, 55, 59, 98 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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