Oh Lord (Ver. 2) · Foxy Shazam

127 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 38-44 and 46-49, and 6 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
OH LORD (VER. 2) · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 30, 31, 32, 34 and 19 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 11 sections: 55 keep time, 25 are fills, 22 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCES1OI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Oh Lord (Ver. 2)?

130 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 Oh Lord (Ver. 2) hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Oh Lord (Ver. 2)?

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 30, 31, 32, 34 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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