Ex's & Oh's · Elle King

127 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-31, 45-47 and 49-50, and 5 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
EX'S & OH'S · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 9 sections: 103 keep time, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-127.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ex's & Oh's?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Ex's & Oh's hard to play on drums?

60 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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