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Oops I Did It Again · Britney Spears

EXERCISE 23 OF 23
Play the whole song with the record
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART K
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesCBS6KFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oops I Did It Again on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
39/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, toms through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-52, silence through bars 53-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 13-18, and 8 more places -- 64.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 6, 8, 20, 24, 30, 31 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-53 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Oops I Did It Again?

95 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 Oops I Did It Again hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Oops I Did It Again?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 6, 8, 20, 24, 30, 31 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED