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Not Unlike The Waves · Agalloch

EXERCISE 1 OF 77
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 77 PASSED · 79 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not Unlike The Waves on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
442
LENGTH
8:50
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-44, hi-hat through bars 45-88, snare through bars 89-99, silence through bars 100-119 and kick and crashes through bars 120-125, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
Not Unlike The Waves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- E, O, C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 97-135 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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