Watermelon · John + Jane Q

35 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 1:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
35
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 15-23 and 27-28 -- 65.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
WATERMELON · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

35 bars across 2 sections: 33 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

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

Questions

What BPM is Watermelon?

80 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 hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

35 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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