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Down By The Water · Decemberists

Down By The Water · Decemberists
EXERCISE 9 OF 17
Groove E
90 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesCDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Down By The Water on drums

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

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-64, snare through bars 65-66, hi-hat through bars 67-92 and snare through bars 93-94, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 52-68 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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