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Bob the Overseeing Entity · Another Crack in the Bridge

Bob the Overseeing Entity · Another Crack in the Bridge
EXERCISE 10 OF 18
Join Part B to Break (bars 39-41)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, BREAK
CHORUS
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
7 groovesAS3GBF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bob the Overseeing Entity on drums

87 bars, 4:58, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, silence through bars 41-57, hi-hat through bars 58-62, silence through bars 63-65, hi-hat through bars 66-69 and silence through bars 70-72, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-28 and 58-62 -- 50.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-f-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-g-----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Bob the Overseeing Entity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A, G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 39-66 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bob the Overseeing Entity?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Bob the Overseeing Entity hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bob the Overseeing Entity?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED