Waterfront · Simple Minds

143 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-35, 46-65 and 71-93, and 2 more places -- 85.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WATERFRONT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 7 sections: 134 keep time, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-142.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waterfront?

120 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 Waterfront hard to play on drums?

49 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?

143 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 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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