Waterwings · Alexisonfire

77 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 8 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
WATERWINGS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 21, 41, 42, 44, 46 and 4 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 75-77 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 6 sections: 59 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-40.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBROHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waterwings?

116 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 Waterwings hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Waterwings?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 21, 41, 42, 44, 46 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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