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Dark Water · Agent Fresco

Dark Water · Agent Fresco
EXERCISE 12 OF 36
Groove I (a two-bar phrase)
78 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCQTDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dark Water on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-11, snare through bars 12-15, hi-hat through bars 16-28, ride through bars 29-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-43, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 11, and 21 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------x-----x---|
RD |x---------------|
SD |--x-----x-----x-|
BD |-x--x--x--x--x--|
Dark Water -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 12, 24, 25 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 1-85 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dark Water?

130 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 Dark Water hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dark Water?

8 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 12, 24, 25 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED