Oak Street · Knuckle Puck

129 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 73-79, and 1 more place -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 193 BPM
OAK STREET · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 20 more.

LOOP · 193 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 11 sections: 49 keep time, 27 are fills, 44 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-104.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART U
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHNABUAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Oak Street?

193 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Oak Street hard to play on drums?

51 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 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 Oak Street?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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