Oh Well · Kurt Travis

78 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-26 and 41-64 -- 64.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
OH WELL · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 28 and 66.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 4 sections: 72 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-27.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Oh Well?

112 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Oh Well?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 28 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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