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Octopus · Syd Barrett

Octopus · Syd Barrett
EXERCISE 10 OF 15
Groove O -- Outro 2
94 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Octopus on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:35 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-60, toms through bars 61-62, hi-hat through bars 63-102 and snare through bars 103-104.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16, 20-26 and 28-46, and 10 more places -- 72.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x---------x-----x-|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Octopus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 103 and 104.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Octopus?

90 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 Octopus hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 8 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Octopus?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 103 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED