Edge of the Ocean · Stick Figure

174 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15 and 17-21, and 40 more places -- 65.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
EDGE OF THE OCEAN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 134.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 134 · LANDS ON BAR 135
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 14 sections: 147 keep time, 2 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-56.

CHORUS
CHORUS 4
PART F
PART D
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
5 groovesCDFS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Edge of the Ocean?

140 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 Edge of the Ocean hard to play on drums?

36 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Edge of the Ocean?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 134.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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