Omega · Infugue

99 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-17, 31-32 and 43, and 3 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
OMEGA · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41 and 8 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 15 sections: 65 keep time, 14 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-21.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART N
PART R
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDBRIQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Omega?

135 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 Omega hard to play on drums?

52 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Omega?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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