Whitewater · Kyuss

167 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 7:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
7:49
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 85-95, 107-111 and 125-127, and 1 more place -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
WHITEWATER · BAR 85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 29, 37, 41, 58, 62, 64 and 3 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 19 sections: 130 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AG
OUTRO
13 groovesZEBHK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whitewater?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Whitewater hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 7:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Whitewater?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 29, 37, 41, 58, 62, 64 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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