Oleander · Mother Mother

84 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-45, 55 and 64-69 -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 113 BPM
OLEANDER · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 56, 61, 63, 70, 72, 81 and 3 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 11 sections: 57 keep time, 9 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-22.

PART A
PART E
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJCEKX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Oleander?

113 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 Oleander hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor 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 Oleander?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 56, 61, 63, 70, 72, 81 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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