O Children · Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

100 bars, 6:40, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 9 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 60 BPM
O CHILDREN · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 4 sections: 92 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-75.

PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is O Children?

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

Is O Children hard to play on drums?

53 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?

100 bars, about 6:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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