Ocean Man · Ween

64 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-24, 26-36 and 46-48, and 1 more place -- 84.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
OCEAN MAN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 37, 49 and 61.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 4 sections: 49 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
PART S2
OUTRO
3 groovesBS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ocean Man?

123 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 Ocean Man hard to play on drums?

50 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?

64 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Ocean Man?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 37, 49 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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