Oily Water · Blur

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-27 and 34-56, and 4 more places -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
OILY WATER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 66 and 78.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 7 sections: 113 keep time, 2 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-130.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Oily Water?

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 Oily Water hard to play on drums?

41 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Oily Water?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 66 and 78.

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