High Water · Sleep Token

109 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-30, 33-34 and 37-38, and 1 more place -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
HIGH WATER · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 29, 30 and 21 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 10 sections: 47 keep time, 27 are fills, 3 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-79.

PART C
PART G
PART S4
PART N
CHORUS
PART T
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesS6ABXCN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is High Water?

122 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 High Water hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in High Water?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 29, 30 and 21 more.

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