Not Unlike The Waves · Agalloch

442 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 8:50 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
442
LENGTH
8:50
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-63, 65 and 67-75, and 5 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
NOT UNLIKE THE WAVES · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 22, 44, 64, 66, 76, 86 and 35 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

442 bars across 18 sections: 262 keep time, 41 are fills, 53 are stops and 70 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 173-200.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART S5
PART O
PART O
PART S13
PART Y
OUTRO
12 groovesEOYAES5+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Not Unlike The Waves?

150 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Not Unlike The Waves hard to play on drums?

59 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

442 bars, about 8:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 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 Not Unlike The Waves?

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 22, 44, 64, 66, 76, 86 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 442 BARS ANALYSED
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