Oil & Water · Pvris

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-40 and 42-64 -- 95.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 87 BPM
OIL & WATER · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 17, 41 and 65.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 2 sections: 61 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-40.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Oil & Water?

87 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 Oil & Water hard to play on drums?

40 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Oil & Water?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 17, 41 and 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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