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Oosupudu · Telug

Oosupudu · Telug
EXERCISE 6 OF 16
Join Chorus 3 to Break 3 (bars 79-81)
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0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, BREAK 3
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
OUTRO
7 groovesBS1FS7S3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oosupudu on drums

94 bars, 4:59, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-58, silence through bars 59-60, hi-hat through bars 61-74, silence through bars 75-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-58, 61-74 and 77-80 -- 88.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Oosupudu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 87, 88 and 94.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 79-89 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Break 4 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Oosupudu?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Oosupudu hard to play on drums?

46 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 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 Oosupudu?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 87, 88 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED