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Saferwaters · Chevelle

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove J -- Part J
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART H
PART I
PART J
PART O
PART F
OUTRO
6 groovesBJHOF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Saferwaters on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-25, snare through bars 26-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-37, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---------|
Saferwaters -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, H, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-29 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-48 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-80 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 91-124 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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