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Down To The Waterline · Dire Straits

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 18 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS1EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Down To The Waterline on drums

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.

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
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:54
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-10 and hi-hat through bars 11-115.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
HF |--x---x---x-----|
Down To The Waterline -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 and 5 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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