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Waterwings · Alexisonfire

EXERCISE 2 OF 30
Groove H -- Part H
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBROHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waterwings on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
74/100

ride through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-12, ride through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-20, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |-x---x-x-x---x-x|
Waterwings -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-44 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-23 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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