Olympus · Blondshell

61 bars, 3:29, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 10 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
OLYMPUS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 36, 40, 42 and 4 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 6 sections: 40 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-15.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Olympus?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Olympus hard to play on drums?

39 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Olympus?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 36, 40, 42 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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