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Ocean Song · Daughters

Ocean Song · Daughters
EXERCISE 3 OF 36
Groove J
66 / 252 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 45 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEACGI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ocean Song on drums

252 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 6:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
252
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-116 and toms through bars 117-252.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-43, 53-56 and 61-64, and 3 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x-----|
SD |--------x------x|
T2 |----------x-----|
FT |--------------x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Ocean Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 44, 48, 84, 100, 104 and 112.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-57 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-66 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-120 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ocean Song?

150 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 Song hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

252 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Song?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 44, 48, 84, 100, 104 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 252 BARS ANALYSED