OCEAN · Moses Yoofee Trio

70 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 1:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
1:38
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61, 63 and 65-70 -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 171 BPM
OCEAN · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 48 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 42 more.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 5-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 48 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 4 sections: 15 keep time, 48 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-62.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesS2NAUS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is OCEAN?

171 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 hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 1:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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 OCEAN?

1 fill to learn, played 48 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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