Go Into The Water · Dethklok

127 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-26, 43-49 and 51-55, and 4 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GO INTO THE WATER · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 50, 56, 72, 82, 84, 88 and 8 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 9 sections: 101 keep time, 14 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-26.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABHMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Go Into The Water?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Go Into The Water hard to play on drums?

56 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Go Into The Water?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 50, 56, 72, 82, 84, 88 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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