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Fisherman's Blues · The Waterboys

Fisherman's Blues · The Waterboys
EXERCISE 23 OF 26
Join Chorus 4 to Outro (bars 141-143)
141 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4, OUTRO
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
5 groovesEGS1QBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fisherman's Blues on drums

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

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-11 and hi-hat through bars 12-152.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Fisherman's Blues -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-19 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-41 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-70 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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