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Octopus's Garden · The Beatles

EXERCISE 3 OF 25
5-bar fill at bar 60
25 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHJELCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Octopus's Garden on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
56/100

ride through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, ride through bars 29-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-36, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-11 and 21-23, and 3 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Octopus's Garden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 60, 61, 62, 63 and 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-36 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Octopus's Garden?

92 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 Octopus's Garden hard to play on drums?

56 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Octopus's Garden?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 60, 61, 62, 63 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED