Saferwaters · Chevelle

130 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 24 and 34-36, and 20 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
SAFERWATERS · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 9, 33, 41, 47, 49 and 8 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 11 sections: 73 keep time, 14 are fills and 33 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-67.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART H
PART J
PART O
PART F
6 groovesBJHOF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Saferwaters?

132 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 Saferwaters hard to play on drums?

45 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Saferwaters?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 9, 33, 41, 47, 49 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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