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Watch Over You · Alter Bridge

EXERCISE 32 OF 33
Run M2 · Outro 2 (bars 67-81)
79 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART B
PART M
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAMBFJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Watch Over You on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40, ride through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48, snare through bars 49-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-66, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 53-59, 61 and 67-72, and 1 more place -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    53               54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|X-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Watch Over You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 40, 47, 48, 52, 60, 63 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- M -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-41 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-49 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-53 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-75 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Watch Over You?

85 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 Watch Over You hard to play on drums?

46 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Watch Over You?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 40, 47, 48, 52, 60, 63 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED