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An Ocean Between Us · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 7 OF 53
Fill at bar 8
115 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART S
PART U
OUTRO
9 groovesFNCSU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play An Ocean Between Us on drums

184 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
75/100

ride through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-24, hi-hat through bars 25-38, toms through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-54 and toms through bars 55-59, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-38 and 41-47, and 3 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
An Ocean Between Us -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 39, 40 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 70-121 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is An Ocean Between Us?

225 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is An Ocean Between Us hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 An Ocean Between Us?

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 39, 40 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED