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Oh Lord (Ver. 2) · Foxy Shazam

Oh Lord (Ver. 2) · Foxy Shazam
EXERCISE 21 OF 43
Join Chorus 2 to Part O (bars 53-55)
87 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART O
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oh Lord (Ver. 2) on drums

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

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-19, toms through bars 20-37, snare through bars 38-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-63, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
Oh Lord (Ver. 2) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- C, E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-98 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-56 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-71 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 69-105 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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