Watermelon Crawl · Tracy Byrd

106 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 14-22 and 24, and 10 more places -- 68.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 137 BPM
WATERMELON CRAWL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 25, 57, 67, 77, 85 and 2 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 89 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-56.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
4 groovesBKFS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Watermelon Crawl?

137 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 Watermelon Crawl hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Watermelon Crawl?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 25, 57, 67, 77, 85 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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