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Oh Love · Green Day

EXERCISE 3 OF 42
Groove H -- Part H
35 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART H
PART F
PART H
BREAK
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJFHS7S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oh Love on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 4:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-34, toms through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-43, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 37-38, and 8 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
HH |--o-------o-----|--o---oo--o-----|
SD |----x-xx----x-xx|----x----x--x-xx|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x---x-x--x----|
Oh Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 17, 18, 30 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-75 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Oh Love?

84 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 Love hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Oh Love?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 17, 18, 30 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED