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Europa · Oomph!

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART M
OUTRO
6 groovesCDJMS9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Europa on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-60, snare through bars 61-80, silence through bars 81-90 and toms through bars 91-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 29-36 and 53-59, and 2 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |-------x-x------|
FT |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Europa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 28, 52, 60, 61, 62 and 9 more.

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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-65 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Europa?

92 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 Europa hard to play on drums?

55 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Europa?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 28, 52, 60, 61, 62 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED