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Oh Well · Fiona Apple

EXERCISE 20 OF 39
Fill at bar 44 (a small one)
71 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesABLEOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oh Well on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
38/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40 and ride through bars 41-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 42 and 47, and 7 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 40, 44, 48, 50, 56 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-41 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-53 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 51-83 -- 11 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Oh Well?

108 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 Well hard to play on drums?

38 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Well?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 40, 44, 48, 50, 56 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED