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Farewell Transmission · Songs: Ohia

Farewell Transmission · Songs: Ohia
EXERCISE 10 OF 53
Join Part A to Part E (bars 7-9)
85 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART E
PART A
PART E
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Farewell Transmission on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
7:30
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, ride through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-36 and ride through bars 37-39, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----xx-x----|
Farewell Transmission -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- L, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-16 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-76 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-104 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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