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om mani padme hum part ii (ai) · Chris Christodoulou

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Part B
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART R
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS5BCRAHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play om mani padme hum part ii (ai) on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
48/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-21, ride through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-50 and silence through bars 51-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 10 -- 6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-------------x---|
BD |x-----------x---x-------|
om mani padme hum part ii (ai) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-46 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-39 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-50 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is om mani padme hum part ii (ai)?

150 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 om mani padme hum part ii (ai) hard to play on drums?

48 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 om mani padme hum part ii (ai)?

5 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED