Water No Get Enemy · Fela Kuti

58 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 2:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-53 -- 67.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 89 BPM
WATER NO GET ENEMY · BAR 17
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 5 sections: 49 keep time, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-53.

PART B
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBDS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Water No Get Enemy?

89 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 Water No Get Enemy hard to play on drums?

58 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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