Disenfranchised Owl · Bill Bailey

20 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 0:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
20
LENGTH
0:32
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-11 and 14-19 -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DISENFRANCHISED OWL · BARS 2-3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

20 bars: 11 keep time, 1 is a fill and 8 are stops.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Disenfranchised Owl?

150 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 Disenfranchised Owl hard to play on drums?

44 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

20 bars, about 0:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Disenfranchised Owl?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

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