Farewell Transmission · Songs: Ohia

135 bars, 7:30, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Country / FolkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
7:30
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-35, 42-51 and 62-67, and 5 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
FAREWELL TRANSMISSION · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 14, 22, 24, 28 and 21 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 12 sections: 95 keep time and 28 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-51.

PART A
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART D
OUTRO
5 groovesLDEGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Farewell Transmission?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Farewell Transmission hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 7:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Farewell Transmission?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 14, 22, 24, 28 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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