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Oleander · Mother Mother

EXERCISE 19 OF 45
Groove K -- Part K
53 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oleander on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
53/100

ride through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-22, hi-hat through bars 23-32, ride through bars 33-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-53, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Oleander -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- J, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-36 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 42-57 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-62 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-74 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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