Drowning · Woodz

112 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23 and 45-59 -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 111 BPM
DROWNING · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 60, 63, 64, 72, 88, 96 and 1 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 9 sections: 80 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-26.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGBNS1S8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drowning?

111 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 Drowning hard to play on drums?

49 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Drowning?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 60, 63, 64, 72, 88, 96 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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