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OKAY! · Forrest frank

OKAY! · Forrest frank
EXERCISE 15 OF 16
Run B3 · Outro (bars 87-108)
75 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
PART S6
PART E
VERSE
BREAK 3
OUTRO
10 groovesBEGS12D+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play OKAY! on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
32/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, silence through bars 25-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-37, silence through bars 38-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-47, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-14, 16-24 and 61-62, and 2 more places -- 54.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
OKAY! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 23-63 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 57-77 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is OKAY!?

120 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 OKAY! hard to play on drums?

32 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED