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The Boat I Row · Tame Impala

EXERCISE 3 OF 31
Groove F
20 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Boat I Row on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-38, silence through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-52, silence through bars 53-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-64.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----xx-x-----|
The Boat I Row -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 17-35 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-39 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-64 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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