Watermelon Man · New York Jazz Lounge

169 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 6:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 21, and 8 more places -- 59.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
WATERMELON MAN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 22, 37, 38, 69, 70, 149 and 12 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 69-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 149-150 · LANDS ON BAR 151 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 12 sections: 134 keep time, 18 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-117.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
4 groovesBAIABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Watermelon Man?

102 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 Man hard to play on drums?

48 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 6:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Watermelon Man?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 22, 37, 38, 69, 70, 149 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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