Open · Olly Steele

135 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22 and 25-26, and 17 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 169 BPM
OPEN · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 23, 27, 30 and 22 more.

LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 9 sections: 66 keep time, 28 are fills, 26 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-85.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCZKADG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Open?

169 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 Open hard to play on drums?

51 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Open?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 23, 27, 30 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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