Fisherman's Blues · The Waterboys

152 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / FolkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-16, 22-32 and 34-36, and 10 more places -- 77.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 134 BPM
FISHERMAN'S BLUES · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 9, 17, 39, 47, 69 and 77.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 11 sections: 125 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-142.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
5 groovesEGS1QBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fisherman's Blues?

134 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 Fisherman's Blues 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Fisherman's Blues?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 9, 17, 39, 47, 69 and 77.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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