Water Of Love · Dire Straits

80 bars, 5:20, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5-7 and 9-27, and 7 more places -- 69.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 60 BPM
WATER OF LOVE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 2 sections: 76 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-63.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Water Of Love?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Water Of Love hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Water Of Love?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.

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