OMNIVOR · Extermination dismemberment

77 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 34-36 and 52 -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
OMNIVOR · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 12 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 16-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 13 sections: 27 keep time, 18 are fills, 16 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-49.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART R
PART Q
PART W
PART AB
PART AG
PART AJ
OUTRO
13 groovesGAGABS13S2+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is OMNIVOR?

114 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 OMNIVOR hard to play on drums?

63 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 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 OMNIVOR?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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