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OMNI · Anakreenskyrider

EXERCISE 5 OF 49
Groove D -- Chorus
72 / 225 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART A
PART U
PART W
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDWAS1N+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play OMNI on drums

225 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37, ride through bars 38-55, hi-hat through bars 56-101, snare through bars 102-116 and kick and crashes through bars 117-119, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-63, 66-67 and 70-71, and 15 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    62
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---x---|
BD |x-x---x-------x-|
OMNI -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 36, 40, 41, 52, 53, 54 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- N, M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 93-121 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is OMNI?

230 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is OMNI hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 OMNI?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 36, 40, 41, 52, 53, 54 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED