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EXERCISE 13 OF 14
Run D3 · Outro 2 (bars 79-131)
122 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 53 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oily Water on drums

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

41 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
131
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-27, snare through bars 28-33, ride through bars 34-57, snare through bars 58-62 and ride through bars 63-77, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------x-----|
RD |x-x-x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |----x-----x-----|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Oily Water -- 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 66 and 78.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 29-82 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED