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Open · Olly Steele
EXERCISE 8 OF 56
Groove D
54 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCZKADG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Open on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38, snare through bars 39-78, hi-hat through bars 79-102 and snare through bars 103-133, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----------x-x-x-|
Open -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- G, F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-65 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-51 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 85-96 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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