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Watermelon Crawl · Tracy Byrd

Watermelon Crawl · Tracy Byrd
EXERCISE 5 OF 26
Groove C
73 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
4 groovesBKFS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Watermelon Crawl on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-31, snare through bars 32-33, hi-hat through bars 34-63, snare through bars 64-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-81, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 62-68 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 66-82 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 79-105 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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