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Oak Street · Knuckle Puck

EXERCISE 36 OF 48
Run U1 · Part U (bars 65-75)
95 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oak Street on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56 and snare through bars 57-64, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-x---|
Oak Street -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- N, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part S and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-96 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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