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Oh! Sweet Nuthin' · The Velvet Underground

Oh! Sweet Nuthin' · The Velvet Underground
EXERCISE 1 OF 66
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART W
PART AF
OUTRO
6 groovesABWAFAH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oh! Sweet Nuthin' on drums

273 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 7:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
273
LENGTH
7:23
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-180, ride through bars 181-206, toms through bars 207-212, ride through bars 213-216, snare through bars 217-248 and hi-hat through bars 249-273.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9 and 11, and 27 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 16, 48, 64, 80, 88, 96 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-63 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Oh! Sweet Nuthin'?

148 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! Sweet Nuthin' hard to play on drums?

49 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?

273 bars, about 7:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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! Sweet Nuthin'?

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 16, 48, 64, 80, 88, 96 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 273 BARS ANALYSED