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Omnipresent Perception · Beyond Creation

EXERCISE 17 OF 105
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 105 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART I
PART L
PART I
PART L
PART AA
PART AY
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesSLS18AAAY+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Omnipresent Perception on drums

222 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 7:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
222
LENGTH
7:03
DIFFICULTY
87/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-4, ride through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, ride through bars 23-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-56, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 37-45 and 57, and 6 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Omnipresent Perception -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

28 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 10, 13, 14, 23, 24, 25 and 63 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Omnipresent Perception?

141 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Omnipresent Perception hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

222 bars, about 7:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 27 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 Omnipresent Perception?

28 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 10, 13, 14, 23, 24, 25 and 63 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 222 BARS ANALYSED