Heavy Water · Foals

148 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 103-148 -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
HEAVY WATER · BARS 103-104
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 8 sections: 132 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-148.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART B
PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJBDHE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heavy Water?

135 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 Heavy Water hard to play on drums?

52 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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.

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