Exes and Ohs · Elle King

117 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 37-56 and 81-88, and 1 more place -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
EXES AND OHS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 10 sections: 107 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART B
OUTRO
3 groovesACBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Exes and Ohs?

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 Exes and Ohs hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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