Enola Gay · Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

116 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

ElectronicPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-31 and 33-35, and 15 more places -- 46.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
ENOLA GAY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 9 sections: 104 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-75.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEDABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Enola Gay?

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 Enola Gay hard to play on drums?

59 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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