Down By The Water · Decemberists

107 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 19 more places -- 60.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DOWN BY THE WATER · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 6, 29, 30, 65, 66, 93 and 1 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 7 sections: 92 keep time, 7 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-61.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesCDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Down By The Water?

125 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 Down By The Water hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Down By The Water?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 6, 29, 30, 65, 66, 93 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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