Down To The Waterline · Dire Straits

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 5:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:54
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 15-18 and 21-22, and 19 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 78 BPM
DOWN TO THE WATERLINE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 and 5 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 75-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 111-112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 4 sections: 93 keep time, 11 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-74.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS1EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Down To The Waterline?

78 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 To The Waterline 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 5:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Down To The Waterline?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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