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Oje · Duman

EXERCISE 17 OF 33
Groove G
98 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT
PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oje on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
51/100

ride through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-20, toms through bars 21-35, hi-hat through bars 36-51 and ride through bars 52-59, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16, 21-34 and 60-73 -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
SD |--------r--r-r--r-------r-------r-------r-------r-------r-------|
T1 |----------------------------------------x-----------------------|
T2 |--------------------------------------------------------x-------|
BD |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
Oje -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 35, 43, 51, 82, 90, 113 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-36 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-36 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part C and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Oje?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Oje hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Oje?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 35, 43, 51, 82, 90, 113 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED