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Waterfront · Simple Minds

EXERCISE 11 OF 12
Join Chorus 2 to Outro (bars 64-66)
137 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waterfront on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-143.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---o---x---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Waterfront -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 39-46 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED