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Heavy Water · Foals

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove J -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heavy Water on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-148.

The beat

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.

    103              104
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x---x---x---x-|--x---xxx-----x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x--------x------|
Heavy Water -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- J, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-76 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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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