Ocean Avenue · Yellowcard

141 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkPop150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 8 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 174 BPM
OCEAN AVENUE · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 28, 35, 36, 40, 44 and 19 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 11 sections: 96 keep time, 25 are fills, 7 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-27.

PART F
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJFTCS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ocean Avenue?

174 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 Ocean Avenue hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ocean Avenue?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 28, 35, 36, 40, 44 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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