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Exes and Ohs · Elle King

Exes and Ohs · Elle King
EXERCISE 3 OF 13
Groove C -- Part C
52 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Exes and Ohs on drums

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

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bars 1-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-36, toms through bars 37-56, kick and crashes through bars 57-64 and ride through bars 65-80, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
FT |x-----x---x-x-----x-----|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------|
Exes and Ohs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 17-40 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED