Confidence · Ocean Alley

73 bars, 4:09, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PopRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 14-15, and 7 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 70 BPM
CONFIDENCE · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 13, 21, 23, 24, 25 and 9 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 10 sections: 49 keep time, 15 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-20.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDOAJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Confidence?

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 Confidence hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Confidence?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 13, 21, 23, 24, 25 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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