ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ocean Planet on drums

163 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 117 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 163
LENGTH: 5:12
DIFFICULTY: 79/100

ride through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-12, ride through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-21 and snare through bars 22-26, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10-11, and 13 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                        3
    1...........2........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
T1 |x-----x-----------------|------------------------------------------------|
T2 |x-----x-----x-----------|------------------------------------------------|
FT |------------x-----------|------------------------------------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----------|x-----x-----------------------------------x-----|

Ocean Planet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 35, 54, 66, 88, 90 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- B, AI -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 82-94 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Ocean Planet?

117 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Planet hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Planet?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 35, 54, 66, 88, 90 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED