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Oh Well · Kurt Travis

Oh Well · Kurt Travis
EXERCISE 10 OF 13
Run E1 · Part E (bars 29-40)
71 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oh Well on drums

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

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
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
57/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |----X-------X---|----X-----X---X-|
HH |X---x---x---x---|x---x---x-X-x-X-|
SD |----X-------X---|----X-----X---X-|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x-x---x---|
Oh Well -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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