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O Green World · Gorillaz

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBECDF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play O Green World on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-25, hi-hat through bars 26-70, snare through bars 71-85, hi-hat through bars 86-125 and snare through bars 126-132.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-25, 70-85 and 126-132 -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
O Green World -- 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 24 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 39-85 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 86-119 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 95-129 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is O Green World?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 O Green World hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED