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Edge of the Ocean v2 · Stick Figure

EXERCISE 21 OF 21
Play the whole song with the record
167 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 174 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
BREAK
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCIS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Edge of the Ocean v2 on drums

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

37 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
37/100

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 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 26 more places -- 77.2% 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 v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 112 and 134.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 147-167 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Edge of the Ocean v2?

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 v2 hard to play on drums?

37 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 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 v2?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 112 and 134.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED