The Boat I Row · Tame Impala

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 19-20 and 30-31, and 4 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 76 BPM
THE BOAT I ROW · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 23, 24, 25, 26, 32 and 3 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 23-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 10 sections: 32 keep time, 9 are fills and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-63.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
BREAK 2
OUTRO
7 groovesDCGS1Q+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Boat I Row?

76 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 The Boat I Row hard to play on drums?

53 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 The Boat I Row?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 23, 24, 25, 26, 32 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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