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Water and Time ai · Rivers of Nihil

EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove A -- Part A
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PART A
PART E
PART A
CHORUS
PART U
PART R
PART I
PART AG
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesMARAGU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Water and Time ai on drums

177 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, silence through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-47, toms through bars 48-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-79, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 21 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------x-----|
Water and Time ai -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 32, 36, 48, 50, 52, 54 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- A, R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-60 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Water and Time ai?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Water and Time ai hard to play on drums?

64 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Water and Time ai?

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 32, 36, 48, 50, 52, 54 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED