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Omega · Infugue

Omega · Infugue
EXERCISE 9 OF 50
Groove F
57 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Omega on drums

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

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-87 and toms through bars 88-89, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Omega -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- D, R -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-42 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-61 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-91 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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