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Edge of the Ocean · Stick Figure

EXERCISE 14 OF 26
Chorus 3 into Part F with the record (bars 95-102)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART F
PART D
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
5 groovesCDFS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Edge of the Ocean on drums

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

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-174.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Edge of the Ocean -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-121 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 95-128 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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